Does HD4 flood?

Yes — parts of the HD4 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 31 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HD4 postcode district covers Newsome, Crosland Moor and Netherton, Holme Valley North, close to Huddersfield, Huddersfield Royd Street, Huddersfield Willow Lane, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.

31 postcodes in the HD4 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 7 medium, 13 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 HD4 postcodes are at risk?

HD4 7BH up to High HD4 7BQ up to High HD4 7DL up to High HD4 7DN up to High HD4 7EA up to High HD4 7PA up to High HD4 7PB up to High HD4 7PJ up to High HD4 7PL up to High HD4 7PN up to High HD4 7PT up to High HD4 6EN up to Medium HD4 6EQ up to Medium HD4 7LZ up to Medium HD4 7NF up to Medium HD4 7NL up to Medium HD4 7NZ up to Medium HD4 7QF up to Medium HD4 6BL up to Low HD4 6BW up to Low HD4 6EJ up to Low HD4 6EL up to Low HD4 6EP up to Low HD4 6EW up to Low HD4 7BS up to Low HD4 7NP up to Low HD4 7NR up to Low HD4 7NY up to Low HD4 7PD up to Low HD4 7PW up to Low HD4 7QD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HD4

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

Queen's Mill on the River Holme — 2.1 km away, highest on record 2.94m
Huddersfield Longroyd Bridge on the River Colne — 2.2 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Huddersfield Royd Street on the Longwood Brook — 3.2 km away, highest on record 0.78m
Huddersfield Willow Lane on the Grimescar Dike — 4 km away, highest on record 0.54m

206 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (151 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):

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 18.5 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 49.1 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 57.1 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

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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.