Does L12 flood?

Yes — parts of the L12 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 42 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L12 postcode district covers Yew Tree, West Derby Deysbrook, Croxteth Country Park, close to Aintree, Netherley, Bootle, and surrounding villages in Liverpool City Region.

42 postcodes in the L12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 2 medium, 9 low, 28 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 L12 postcodes are at risk?

L12 0AG up to High L12 0HX up to High L12 0PW up to High L12 0BA up to Medium L12 0HA up to Medium L12 0AA up to Low L12 0AB up to Low L12 0AD up to Low L12 0AE up to Low L12 0AF up to Low L12 0HZ up to Low L12 4BE up to Low L12 4XF up to Low L12 4YB up to Low L12 0AJ up to Very low L12 0HD up to Very low L12 0HY up to Very low L12 0LS up to Very low L12 0LT up to Very low L12 4BD up to Very low L12 4XR up to Very low L12 4XT up to Very low L12 4XU up to Very low L12 4XY up to Very low L12 4XZ up to Very low L12 4YA up to Very low L12 4YD up to Very low L12 4YJ up to Very low L12 4YP up to Very low L12 4YR up to Very low L12 4YS up to Very low L12 4YT up to Very low L12 6QP up to Very low L12 6QS up to Very low L12 6RA up to Very low L12 6RB up to Very low L12 6RD up to Very low L12 6RE up to Very low L12 6RF up to Very low L12 6RG up to Very low L12 6RQ up to Very low L12 6RS up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near L12

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

133 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (74 at warning level or above), most recently 20 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

L10 L9 L16 L17 L6 L19 L5 L20

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.