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Does LE16 8AJ flood?

Market Harborough, Leicestershire

Up to Very low likelihood

Properties in LE16 8AJ sit in the Environment Agency's Very low flood-likelihood band (worst property). The band is the worst found in the postcode — it describes the land around properties (defence-adjusted, rivers & sea), not any single address, and not today's conditions.

Likelihood bandAnnual chancePropertiesOf which homes
Highgreater than 3.3%00
Medium1% – 3.3%00
Low0.1% – 1%00
Very lowbelow 0.1%66

Over a 25-year mortgage, a property in a very low-likelihood area has less than a 3% chance of flooding at least once.

The ground around LE16 8AJ

The ground here sits at about 77 m above sea level and falls 34 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the south-east, 13.0 m higher.

Shaded relief map of the ground around LE168AJ, computed from Environment Agency LiDAR. The ground here sits at about 77 m above sea level and falls 34 m across the surrounding 800 m. Surface water reaching this point runs off ground lying to the south-east, 13.0 m higher.
Shaded relief of the bare ground within about 400 m of LE16 8AJ, computed from the Environment Agency's published LiDAR terrain survey. The ring marks the postcode centre, not a property. This shows the shape of the land, not a flood map — it does not include drains, culverts, walls or kerbs, and the official likelihood band above is the authoritative figure. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved.
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Inside the full report for LE16 8AJ

FloodRadarProperty Flood-Risk Report
LE16 8AJ
Moderate flood risk — investigate further

Because properties in the very low likelihood band; 3 recorded floods nearby; 11 official warnings since 2006.

B Today — indicative grade (A best → E)
··· By the 2050s — EA climate scenario (in the full report)
⚑ Official warning within 10 km: Yes ⚑ Recorded flood nearby: Yes ⚑ Flood defences within 500 m: Yes ⚑ In flood zone 2 or 3: ···
Rivers & sea
Up to Very low
Surface water
···
Groundwater
Not assessed
Historic flooding
Recorded nearby
Warning history · flood map with building picker · 2050s view · insurance outlook · every dataset receipt — 18 sections

Flood-risk map of this area

Environment Agency flood-likelihood cells
High (>3.3%/yr) Medium Low Very low Marker = postcode centre Base map © OpenStreetMap contributors

The map above shows the real EA rivers & sea likelihood cells around LE16 8AJ. The small panels are illustrative previews of the report's per-layer map views — the full report draws each layer for real, plus recorded extents, defences and a building picker on an interactive map.

Official flood warnings near LE16 8AJ

11
flood alerts & warnings within 10 km since 2012
11
of them full flood warnings or severe warnings
2024
most recent warning nearby (2024-11-24)

Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded floods near this postcode

DateRecorded floodApprox. distance
Mar 2007 LNA_2007_March_West Brook_Little Bowden ~0.7 km
Apr 1998 LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton ~24.1 km
Mar 1947 LNA_1947_March_River Nene_d/s Northampton ~24.9 km

EA Recorded Flood Outlines — absence of a record never proves a place has not flooded. The full report tests whether any extent covered the exact spot.

Named storms that brought flooding here

Bert (2024, 2 warnings nearby) · Henk (2024, 1 warnings nearby)

The rivers that matter for LE16 8AJ

GaugeRiverDistanceTypical highHighest on record
RIVER JORDAN GS — 0.5 km — —
Little Bowden River Jordan 0.5 km 0.76 m 1.81 m
Market Harborough River Welland 1.0 km 0.96 m 2.03 m
Medbourne Medbourne Brook 8.7 km 0.29 m 1.22 m

Live levels, predictions and rain-response behaviour are on each gauge's page and in the property report.

Storm overflows within 5 km

OverflowDischarges intoDistanceSpillsHours
Market Harborough South Cso River Welland 0.3 km 30 (2024) 163
Market Harborough-riverside Road River Welland 0.3 km 21 (2024) 224
Market Harborough-riverside Road River Welland Nt 2.3 km 65 (2024) 932
Braybrooke Water Recycling Centre R.jordan River Welland Nt 3.1 km 28 (2024) 309

Official annual EDM figures — a water-quality signal for local watercourses, not a property flood-risk factor.

Flood defences

41 mapped flood-defence assets within 500 m — nearest ~171 m (engineered high ground, embankment, wall). Defences reduce risk, never remove it.

What the full property report adds

The interactive flood-risk map with a building picker (your exact house, not the postcode), the 2050s climate view, surface-water and planning flood zones at your building, exact recorded-flood distances, year-by-year warning charts, watercourses including culverted streams, an insurance outlook with the Flood Re rules, and a printable document with every dataset receipt — start with the free preview, unlock for £19.

Flood risk at nearby postcodes

LE16 8AA up to Very low LE16 8AD up to Low LE16 8AE up to Very low LE16 8AN up to Very low LE16 8AS up to Low LE16 8AW up to Very low LE16 8AX up to Medium LE16 8AY up to High LE16 8AZ up to Medium LE16 8BD up to Low LE16 8BF up to Low LE16 8BG up to Medium

At-risk postcodes near LE16 8AJ — all in the LE16 district.

© 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. Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Recorded Flood Outlines and warning history © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. Storm-overflow figures: EA Event Duration Monitoring. Flood defences © Environment Agency (OGL v3). This page summarises public area-level data — it is not a flood-risk survey and not a substitute for the official GOV.UK service. All data sources & licences. More postcodes: the LE16 district.