Does HD5 flood?

Yes — parts of the HD5 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 49 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HD5 postcode district covers Dalton, Almondbury, Ashbrow, Brighouse, close to Huddersfield, Fenay Bridge, Mirfield, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

49 postcodes in the HD5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 8 medium, 26 low, 9 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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Which HD5 postcodes are at risk?

HD5 0PX up to High HD5 0RD up to High HD5 0RL up to High HD5 0RW up to High HD5 0RX up to High HD5 8RR up to High HD5 0QS up to Medium HD5 0RH up to Medium HD5 0RN up to Medium HD5 0RR up to Medium HD5 0RS up to Medium HD5 8QW up to Medium HD5 8RW up to Medium HD5 9SU up to Medium HD5 0AA up to Low HD5 0AB up to Low HD5 0AF up to Low HD5 0AG up to Low HD5 0AL up to Low HD5 0AN up to Low HD5 0BQ up to Low HD5 0BS up to Low HD5 0HA up to Low HD5 0PU up to Low HD5 0RE up to Low HD5 0RP up to Low HD5 8RS up to Low HD5 8SX up to Low HD5 9AA up to Low HD5 9PL up to Low HD5 9PR up to Low HD5 9RS up to Low HD5 9SP up to Low HD5 9SS up to Low HD5 9ST up to Low HD5 9SX up to Low HD5 9SY up to Low HD5 9SZ up to Low HD5 9TA up to Low HD5 9TE up to Low HD5 0AD up to Very low HD5 0AE up to Very low HD5 0AH up to Very low HD5 8RL up to Very low HD5 8RP up to Very low HD5 9SR up to Very low HD5 9UL up to Very low HD5 9UN up to Very low HD5 9UY up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near HD5

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

336 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (226 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

HD4 HD6 HD3 HD7 HD2 HD8 HD1 HD9

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.