Does HD2 flood?

Yes — parts of the HD2 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 71 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HD2 postcode district covers Ashbrow, Dalton, Greenhead, Newsome, close to Huddersfield York Avenue, Huddersfield Willow Lane, Huddersfield, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

71 postcodes in the HD2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 12 medium, 40 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 HD2 postcodes are at risk?

HD2 1AS up to High HD2 1AT up to High HD2 1BW up to High HD2 1DN up to High HD2 1DT up to High HD2 1FB up to High HD2 1FE up to High HD2 1FF up to High HD2 1FG up to High HD2 1FQ up to High HD2 1GX up to High HD2 1XN up to High HD2 1XR up to High HD2 1XX up to High HD2 1YU up to High HD2 1YW up to High HD2 1YY up to High HD2 1YZ up to High HD2 1ZJ up to High HD2 1BL up to Medium HD2 1DU up to Medium HD2 1UA up to Medium HD2 1UL up to Medium HD2 1XL up to Medium HD2 1XY up to Medium HD2 1YF up to Medium HD2 1YL up to Medium HD2 1YN up to Medium HD2 2PX up to Medium HD2 2SZ up to Medium HD2 2UD up to Medium HD2 1AA up to Low HD2 1AF up to Low HD2 1AG up to Low HD2 1AJ up to Low HD2 1AN up to Low HD2 1AP up to Low HD2 1AR up to Low HD2 1AW up to Low HD2 1AX up to Low HD2 1BG up to Low HD2 1BJ up to Low HD2 1BN up to Low HD2 1BP up to Low HD2 1DP up to Low HD2 1UB up to Low HD2 1UP up to Low HD2 1XT up to Low HD2 1XU up to Low HD2 1XZ up to Low HD2 1YB up to Low HD2 1YG up to Low HD2 1YJ up to Low HD2 1YP up to Low HD2 1YQ up to Low HD2 1YR up to Low HD2 1YS up to Low HD2 1YX up to Low HD2 2AE up to Low HD2 2LS up to Low HD2 2LX up to Low HD2 2PT up to Low HD2 2PU up to Low HD2 2QF up to Low HD2 2QN up to Low HD2 2QR up to Low HD2 2RR up to Low HD2 2UA up to Low HD2 2UB up to Low HD2 2UE up to Low HD2 2YD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HD2

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

321 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (209 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. 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.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.