Does LA17 flood?

Yes — parts of the LA17 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LA17 postcode district covers High Furness, Dalton North, close to Ulverston, Beckfoot, Blawith, and surrounding villages in parts of Westmorland and Furness and Cumberland.

21 postcodes in the LA17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 4 medium, 3 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 LA17 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LA17

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

Duddon Hall on the River Duddon — 7.6 km away, highest on record 2.61m
Allotments on the Town Beck — 7.9 km away, highest on record 1.00m
Fitz Bridge on the Dragley Beck — 8.1 km away, highest on record 0.84m
Low Nibthwaite on the River Crake — 8.3 km away, highest on record 1.70m

352 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (49 at warning level or above), most recently 4 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Beck Side, Kirkby-in-Furness (2012) — about 0.7 km from the centre
Soutergate Sewage November 2009 Flooding (2009) — about 1.5 km from the centre
Wall End November 2009 Sewer Flooding (2009) — about 0.4 km from the centre
Kirkby in Furness November 2009 Flooding (2009) — about 0.6 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.