Does HX3 flood?

Yes — parts of the HX3 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 36 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HX3 postcode district covers Skircoat, Northowram and Shelf, Town, Hipperholme and Lightcliffe, close to Copley, Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

36 postcodes in the HX3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 12 medium, 7 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 HX3 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near HX3

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

Copley Bridge on the River Calder — 2.5 km away, highest on record 5.34m
Halifax on the Hebble Brook — 3.1 km away, highest on record 1.55m
Sowerby Bridge on the River Calder — 3.8 km away, highest on record 3.55m
Elland on the River Calder — 3.9 km away, highest on record 2.76m

368 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (165 at warning level or above), most recently 4 September 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 10.6 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 16.4 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 58.9 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.