Does L40 flood?

Yes — parts of the L40 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 65 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L40 postcode district covers Burscough Bridge & Rufford, Burscough Town, close to Newburgh, Croston, Ormskirk, and surrounding villages in Lancashire.

65 postcodes in the L40 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 7 medium, 31 low, 8 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 L40 postcodes are at risk?

L40 0RU up to High L40 0TA up to High L40 1AE up to High L40 1BJ up to High L40 1SA up to High L40 1SL up to High L40 1SP up to High L40 1TB up to High L40 2QH up to High L40 3SA up to High L40 4AZ up to High L40 4BB up to High L40 4BG up to High L40 4BH up to High L40 4BQ up to High L40 4BU up to High L40 9AA up to High L40 9QN up to High L40 9RJ up to High L40 0RL up to Medium L40 2PA up to Medium L40 2QA up to Medium L40 2QD up to Medium L40 4BT up to Medium L40 5UL up to Medium L40 8HB up to Medium L40 1AA up to Low L40 1RB up to Low L40 1SY up to Low L40 1SZ up to Low L40 1TE up to Low L40 1TF up to Low L40 1TG up to Low L40 1TJ up to Low L40 1TL up to Low L40 1TN up to Low L40 1TR up to Low L40 1TS up to Low L40 1TT up to Low L40 1TU up to Low L40 1TW up to Low L40 1UB up to Low L40 1UE up to Low L40 1UJ up to Low L40 1UP up to Low L40 1UR up to Low L40 2RD up to Low L40 4AJ up to Low L40 4BL up to Low L40 4BN up to Low L40 4BW up to Low L40 5XD up to Low L40 6JH up to Low L40 8HH up to Low L40 8HJ up to Low L40 8HW up to Low L40 9RZ up to Low L40 1SD up to Very low L40 1SG up to Very low L40 1SQ up to Very low L40 1ST up to Very low L40 1SU up to Very low L40 1SX up to Very low L40 1TA up to Very low L40 1UG up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near L40

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

179 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (24 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

L39 L38 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.