Does L3 flood?

Yes — parts of the L3 district carry real flood risk: 48 of its 84 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L3 postcode district covers Waterfront South, Waterfront North, Festival Gardens, close to Bootle, Moreton, Upton (Wirral), and surrounding villages in Liverpool City Region.

84 postcodes in the L3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 48 high, 3 medium, 33 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 L3 postcodes are at risk?

L3 0AR up to High L3 0AT up to High L3 1BD up to High L3 1BF up to High L3 1BG up to High L3 1BJ up to High L3 1BU up to High L3 1BY up to High L3 1DL up to High L3 1DP up to High L3 1QW up to High L3 1QY up to High L3 4AA up to High L3 4AB up to High L3 4AD up to High L3 4AE up to High L3 4AF up to High L3 4AG up to High L3 4AN up to High L3 4AS up to High L3 4AY up to High L3 4AZ up to High L3 4BB up to High L3 4BE up to High L3 4BH up to High L3 4BL up to High L3 4BP up to High L3 4BX up to High L3 4DA up to High L3 4DB up to High L3 4EB up to High L3 4EE up to High L3 4EF up to High L3 4EG up to High L3 4EH up to High L3 4EJ up to High L3 4EL up to High L3 4EP up to High L3 4ER up to High L3 4ES up to High L3 4EW up to High L3 4FA up to High L3 4FP up to High L3 4GB up to High L3 4GE up to High L3 4GF up to High L3 4GG up to High L3 4XX up to High L3 0AY up to Medium L3 1BP up to Medium L3 4BG up to Medium L3 0AA up to Low L3 0AB up to Low L3 0AD up to Low L3 0AH up to Low L3 0AQ up to Low L3 0AZ up to Low L3 0BG up to Low L3 0BH up to Low L3 0BQ up to Low L3 0BS up to Low L3 0BT up to Low L3 1AH up to Low L3 1BZ up to Low L3 1DD up to Low L3 1DS up to Low L3 1EA up to Low L3 1EE up to Low L3 1EG up to Low L3 1EH up to Low L3 1EL up to Low L3 1NW up to Low L3 1PS up to Low L3 1QL up to Low L3 1SF up to Low L3 4AQ up to Low L3 4AX up to Low L3 4BU up to Low L3 4BW up to Low L3 4BY up to Low L3 4EX up to Low L3 4SL up to Low L3 4UU up to Low L3 7BB up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near L3

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

118 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 at warning level or above), most recently 4 April 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

L2 L4 L1 L5 L6 L9 L10 L12

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.