Does CH62 flood?

Yes — parts of the CH62 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 19 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH62 postcode district covers Bromborough, Eastham, Willaston & Thornton, close to Ellesmere Port, Upton (Wirral), Moreton, and surrounding villages in parts of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire West and Chester.

19 postcodes in the CH62 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 6 medium, 5 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 CH62 postcodes are at risk?

CH62 0AZ up to High CH62 0BB up to High CH62 1EW up to High CH62 2AL up to High CH62 4TD up to High CH62 4UD up to High CH62 4WA up to High CH62 4XN up to High CH62 0DB up to Medium CH62 4AD up to Medium CH62 4LN up to Medium CH62 4LP up to Medium CH62 4UE up to Medium CH62 4WB up to Medium CH62 1EH up to Low CH62 4SF up to Low CH62 4SQ up to Low CH62 4TT up to Low CH62 9ES up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CH62

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

Greasby Road on the Arrowe Brook — 9.5 km away, highest on record 1.38m
Davis Road on the River Birket — 10.3 km away, highest on record 3.27m
Acton Lane on the Arrowe Brook — 10.9 km away, highest on record 1.61m
Winster Drive on the Netherley Brook — 11.1 km away, highest on record 2.92m

71 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (12 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):

MERE (2002) — about 2.6 km from the centre
DIBB (1997) — about 0.8 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

CH61 CH63 CH60 CH64 CH65 CH66 CH49 CH48

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.