Yes — parts of the CH1 district carry real flood risk: 72 of its 129 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH1 postcode district covers Blacon, Saughall & Mollington, Queensferry and Sealand, close to Abbot's Mead, Chester, Chester, Bridge Trafford, and surrounding villages in parts of Cheshire West and Chester and Wrexham.
129 postcodes in the CH1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 72 high, 32 medium, 21 low, 4 very 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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The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:
43 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (41 at warning level or above), most recently 6 January 2025. Counted from the warning records of the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales; the Environment Agency's record covers England only. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.
Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):
Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.
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.