Does L39 flood?

Yes — parts of the L39 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 46 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L39 postcode district covers Aughton & Holborn, close to Ormskirk, Sefton, Newburgh, and surrounding villages in parts of Lancashire and Liverpool City Region.

46 postcodes in the L39 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 14 medium, 23 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 L39 postcodes are at risk?

L39 0HE up to High L39 3LY up to High L39 4RE up to High L39 4RF up to High L39 4RG up to High L39 4RN up to High L39 4XR up to High L39 6RP up to High L39 6SE up to High L39 0EF up to Medium L39 0ER up to Medium L39 1LG up to Medium L39 3AS up to Medium L39 3BN up to Medium L39 3LG up to Medium L39 3LU up to Medium L39 4RW up to Medium L39 6RB up to Medium L39 6RE up to Medium L39 7JT up to Medium L39 8RY up to Medium L39 8RZ up to Medium L39 8SU up to Medium L39 1LA up to Low L39 1LD up to Low L39 1LW up to Low L39 1RL up to Low L39 3AU up to Low L39 3AY up to Low L39 3AZ up to Low L39 3BA up to Low L39 3BP up to Low L39 3BS up to Low L39 3BT up to Low L39 3NB up to Low L39 3PL up to Low L39 3QH up to Low L39 4RQ up to Low L39 6RA up to Low L39 6RD up to Low L39 6RL up to Low L39 6SA up to Low L39 6ST up to Low L39 7HG up to Low L39 7HT up to Low L39 8RL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near L39

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

161 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (66 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):

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

L38 L40 L37 L36 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.