Does HG5 flood?

Yes — parts of the HG5 district carry real flood risk: 26 of its 45 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HG5 postcode district covers Knaresborough West, Knaresborough East, Boroughbridge & Claro, Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale & Tockwith, close to Little Ribston, Hunsingore, Burn Bridge, and surrounding villages in parts of North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

45 postcodes in the HG5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 26 high, 6 medium, 11 low, 2 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 HG5 postcodes are at risk?

HG5 0HT up to High HG5 0HU up to High HG5 0HX up to High HG5 0JF up to High HG5 0LP up to High HG5 0SX up to High HG5 0SY up to High HG5 0TS up to High HG5 0TT up to High HG5 0TU up to High HG5 0TX up to High HG5 0TY up to High HG5 0TZ up to High HG5 0ZD up to High HG5 0ZE up to High HG5 8DE up to High HG5 8DF up to High HG5 8ET up to High HG5 8HX up to High HG5 8HY up to High HG5 8LR up to High HG5 8LW up to High HG5 8NQ up to High HG5 8PJ up to High HG5 9AZ up to High HG5 9DH up to High HG5 0LR up to Medium HG5 0LS up to Medium HG5 8JB up to Medium HG5 8JW up to Medium HG5 8LF up to Medium HG5 8PN up to Medium HG5 0FE up to Low HG5 0LU up to Low HG5 0RX up to Low HG5 8BH up to Low HG5 8DG up to Low HG5 8FE up to Low HG5 8HZ up to Low HG5 8LH up to Low HG5 8LJ up to Low HG5 9BX up to Low HG5 9LD up to Low HG5 8LP up to Very low HG5 8PY up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near HG5

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

Blackstones Farm on the River Crimple — 5.8 km away, highest on record 2.98m
Hunsingore on the River Nidd — 7.9 km away, highest on record 3.06m
Burn Bridge on the River Crimple — 9.1 km away, highest on record 1.22m
Bishop Monkton on the Bishop Monkton Beck — 9.7 km away, highest on record 0.84m

227 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (196 at warning level or above), most recently 25 March 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 31.9 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 25.6 km from the centre
2020 Oct_Nov Flood Incident - Hurricane Epsilon (2020) — about 1 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 20.7 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

HG4 HG3 HG2 HG1

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.