Does CH48 flood?

Yes — parts of the CH48 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH48 postcode district covers West Kirby and Thurstaston, Greasby, Frankby and Irby, close to Hoylake, Upton (Wirral), Moreton, and surrounding villages in Liverpool City Region.

10 postcodes in the CH48 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 2 medium, 3 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 CH48 postcodes are at risk?

CH48 0QG up to High CH48 0QT up to High CH48 0RR up to High CH48 3HU up to High CH48 3JB up to High CH48 1NS up to Medium CH48 3JU up to Medium CH48 1NW up to Low CH48 1PE up to Low CH48 1PL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CH48

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

Fornalls Bridge on the River Birket — 3.3 km away, highest on record 1.57m
Greasby Road on the Arrowe Brook — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.38m
Acton Lane on the Arrowe Brook — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.61m
Davis Road on the River Birket — 6.9 km away, highest on record 3.27m

66 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (2 at warning level or above), most recently 4 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

West Kirby - 83 South Parade, 103 South Parade (2024) — about 1.4 km from the centre
ea013_051213_WestKirby (2013) — about 1.4 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

CH47 CH49 CH46 CH45 CH44 CH43 CH42 CH41

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.