Does LA23 flood?

Yes — parts of the LA23 district carry real flood risk: 25 of its 69 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LA23 postcode district covers Windermere and Ambleside, Bowness and Lyth, Grange and Cartmel, Upper Kent, close to Calgarth (Trout beck Bridge), Mitchell Wyke Ferry Bay, Satterthwaite, and surrounding villages in Westmorland and Furness.

69 postcodes in the LA23 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 25 high, 13 medium, 31 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 LA23 postcodes are at risk?

LA23 1BN up to High LA23 1EY up to High LA23 1HL up to High LA23 1HN up to High LA23 1HZ up to High LA23 1JR up to High LA23 1LF up to High LA23 1NH up to High LA23 1PB up to High LA23 1PD up to High LA23 2AH up to High LA23 2AR up to High LA23 2AW up to High LA23 2BS up to High LA23 2BT up to High LA23 2BW up to High LA23 2BX up to High LA23 2DR up to High LA23 2DT up to High LA23 2DW up to High LA23 2HH up to High LA23 2LB up to High LA23 2NW up to High LA23 3DN up to High LA23 3NN up to High LA23 1EU up to Medium LA23 1HP up to Medium LA23 1HS up to Medium LA23 1HW up to Medium LA23 1HX up to Medium LA23 1HY up to Medium LA23 1JA up to Medium LA23 1PP up to Medium LA23 1PR up to Medium LA23 2AN up to Medium LA23 2BY up to Medium LA23 2HJ up to Medium LA23 2LR up to Medium LA23 1BF up to Low LA23 1BG up to Low LA23 1HU up to Low LA23 1LJ up to Low LA23 1LQ up to Low LA23 2AD up to Low LA23 2AU up to Low LA23 2AY up to Low LA23 2BA up to Low LA23 2BL up to Low LA23 2BQ up to Low LA23 2BU up to Low LA23 2DA up to Low LA23 2DN up to Low LA23 2DS up to Low LA23 2DU up to Low LA23 2DY up to Low LA23 2FE up to Low LA23 2PR up to Low LA23 3BF up to Low LA23 3BN up to Low LA23 3DS up to Low LA23 3HE up to Low LA23 3JG up to Low LA23 3JH up to Low LA23 3LB up to Low LA23 3LF up to Low LA23 3LH up to Low LA23 3LJ up to Low LA23 3LL up to Low LA23 3LP up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LA23

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

462 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (11 at warning level or above), most recently 24 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LA22 LA21 LA20 LA19 LA18 LA17 LA16 LA15

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.