Does L38 flood?

Yes — parts of the L38 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L38 postcode district covers Ravenmeols, Manor, close to Sefton, Bootle, Aintree, and surrounding villages in parts of Liverpool City Region and Lancashire.

13 postcodes in the L38 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 3 medium, 2 low, 6 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 L38 postcodes are at risk?

L38 7JB up to High L38 9EY up to High L38 7JD up to Medium L38 8AE up to Medium L38 8AF up to Medium L38 1QA up to Low L38 5AA up to Low L38 0BG up to Very low L38 1QF up to Very low L38 1QQ up to Very low L38 3RY up to Very low L38 4JB up to Very low L38 5DB up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near L38

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

Dovers Bridge on the Dovers Brook — 6.3 km away, highest on record 2.59m
Kirkby on the River Alt — 10.5 km away, highest on record 2.22m
Dyers lane on the Sandy Brook — 11.3 km away, highest on record 1.32m
Davis Road on the River Birket — 13.3 km away, highest on record 3.27m

140 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (60 at warning level or above), most recently 20 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

5 December 2013 Tidal Event (2013) — about 1.5 km from the centre
Feb 2011 Cheshire Lines Breach (2011) — about 4.9 km from the centre
CHEL (2000) — about 4.7 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

L37 L39 L36 L40 L35 L34 L33 L32

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.