Does HX2 flood?

Yes — parts of the HX2 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HX2 postcode district covers Luddendenfoot, Illingworth and Mixenden, Ovenden, close to Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, Mytholmroyd, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

30 postcodes in the HX2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 5 medium, 8 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 HX2 postcodes are at risk?

HX2 0UZ up to High HX2 6AE up to High HX2 6AF up to High HX2 6BE up to High HX2 6EP up to High HX2 6EQ up to High HX2 6HU up to High HX2 6JA up to High HX2 6JB up to High HX2 6PH up to High HX2 6PL up to High HX2 6RN up to High HX2 6RW up to High HX2 8XN up to High HX2 8XW up to High HX2 9TN up to High HX2 9TU up to High HX2 6DE up to Medium HX2 6PJ up to Medium HX2 6PX up to Medium HX2 6PY up to Medium HX2 6PZ up to Medium HX2 6AD up to Low HX2 6ET up to Low HX2 6HY up to Low HX2 6SP up to Low HX2 6ST up to Low HX2 8SE up to Low HX2 9AD up to Low HX2 9AG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HX2

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

Halifax on the Hebble Brook — 2.1 km away, highest on record 1.55m
Brearley on the River Calder — 2.4 km away, highest on record 3.18m
Sowerby Bridge on the River Calder — 3.3 km away, highest on record 3.55m
Sowerby Bridge Scar Head Road on the River Ryburn — 3.4 km away, highest on record 3.33m

294 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (138 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 13.3 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 17.6 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 63.3 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

HX3 HX4 HX5 HX6 HX7

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.