Does LE17 flood?

Yes — parts of the LE17 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LE17 postcode district covers Bosworth, Lutterworth West, Broughton Astley South & Leire, Dunton, close to Lilbourne, Clay Coton, Whetstone, and surrounding villages in parts of Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

24 postcodes in the LE17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 3 medium, 7 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 LE17 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LE17

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

Churchover on the River Swift — 7.2 km away, highest on record 1.76m
Clay Coton on the Clay Coton Brook — 8.7 km away, highest on record 2.41m
Whetstone on the Whetstone Brook — 10.2 km away, highest on record 1.96m
Rugby on the River Avon — 10.5 km away, highest on record 3.77m

306 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (40 at warning level or above), most recently 13 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

23rd September 1992, River Swift (2001) — about 1.5 km from the centre
September 1992 (Lower Severn) (1992) — about 1.5 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LE16 LE18 LE15 LE19 LE14 LE13 LE12 LE11

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.