Does L5 flood?

Yes — parts of the L5 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 2 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L5 postcode district covers Waterfront North, close to Bootle, Moreton, Aintree, and surrounding villages in Liverpool City Region.

2 postcodes in the L5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 1 medium. 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 L5 postcodes are at risk?

L5 9SR up to High L5 9XN up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near L5

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

Davis Road on the River Birket — 6.3 km away, highest on record 3.27m
Kirkby on the River Alt — 7.7 km away, highest on record 2.22m
Greasby Road on the Arrowe Brook — 8.8 km away, highest on record 1.38m
Acton Lane on the Arrowe Brook — 8.9 km away, highest on record 1.61m

167 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):

ea013_051213_NewBrighton (2013) — about 3.4 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

L4 L6 L3 L2 L1 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.