Does BD8 flood?

Yes — parts of the BD8 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The BD8 postcode district covers Clayton and Fairweather Green, City, Manningham, close to Bradford Greenside, Saltaire, Cottingley, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

21 postcodes in the BD8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 3 medium, 11 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which BD8 postcodes are at risk?

BD8 0HA up to High BD8 0HR up to High BD8 7DQ up to High BD8 8JU up to High BD8 8JZ up to High BD8 8LG up to High BD8 9RU up to High BD8 0ER up to Medium BD8 0ES up to Medium BD8 9AJ up to Medium BD8 0EN up to Low BD8 0EP up to Low BD8 0EW up to Low BD8 0HS up to Low BD8 0HT up to Low BD8 9AE up to Low BD8 9AL up to Low BD8 9AN up to Low BD8 9RY up to Low BD8 9SY up to Low BD8 9TB up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near BD8

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Bradford Greenside on the Bradford Beck — 0.1 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Shipley on the Bradford Beck — 4.3 km away, highest on record 2.81m
Saltaire on the River Aire — 4.9 km away, highest on record 2.84m
Cottingley Bridge on the River Aire — 5.3 km away, highest on record 3.34m

130 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (55 at warning level or above), most recently 11 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 3.5 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 6.8 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 54.4 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

BD7 BD10 BD6 BD12 BD13 BD14 BD2 BD1

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.