Does HX5 flood?

Yes — parts of the HX5 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 23 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HX5 postcode district covers Elland, Brighouse, close to Copley, Huddersfield York Avenue, Stainland Board Mills, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

23 postcodes in the HX5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 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 HX5 postcodes are at risk?

HX5 0SG up to High HX5 0SQ up to High HX5 9HZ up to High HX5 0SH up to Medium HX5 9AQ up to Medium HX5 9DG up to Medium HX5 9DT up to Medium HX5 9HH up to Medium HX5 9HJ up to Medium HX5 9HP up to Medium HX5 0RY up to Low HX5 9DA up to Low HX5 9DB up to Low HX5 9DE up to Low HX5 9DF up to Low HX5 9DN up to Low HX5 9DX up to Low HX5 9DY up to Low HX5 9HB up to Low HX5 9HD up to Low HX5 9HF up to Low HX5 9HU up to Low HX5 9HX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HX5

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

Elland on the River Calder — 1.3 km away, highest on record 2.76m
Copley Bridge on the River Calder — 2.8 km away, highest on record 5.34m
Huddersfield York Avenue on the Allison Dyke — 4.5 km away, highest on record 1.15m
Stainland Board Mills on the Black Brook — 4.9 km away, highest on record 0.81m

439 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (184 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 12 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 18.6 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 57.7 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

HX4 HX6 HX3 HX7 HX2

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.