Does LE18 flood?

Yes — parts of the LE18 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LE18 postcode district covers Wigston Meadowcourt, Wigston St Wolstan's, Countesthorpe, South Wigston, close to Oadby, Great Glen, Whetstone, and surrounding villages in parts of Leicestershire and City of Leicester.

20 postcodes in the LE18 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 5 medium, 10 low, 1 very 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 LE18 postcodes are at risk?

LE18 3AD up to High LE18 3AE up to High LE18 3UA up to High LE18 4PG up to High LE18 3AA up to Medium LE18 3TD up to Medium LE18 3TP up to Medium LE18 3US up to Medium LE18 3UX up to Medium LE18 1EF up to Low LE18 1JA up to Low LE18 1JW up to Low LE18 3LN up to Low LE18 3SD up to Low LE18 3SS up to Low LE18 3SW up to Low LE18 3TA up to Low LE18 3UJ up to Low LE18 4PL up to Low LE18 1JX up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near LE18

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

South Wigston on the River Sence — 2.3 km away, highest on record 3.65m
Oadby on the Wash Brook — 3.2 km away, highest on record 1.29m
Great Glen on the River Sence — 4.5 km away, highest on record 3.80m
Whetstone on the Whetstone Brook — 5.4 km away, highest on record 1.96m

424 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (65 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Thurnby January 2025 (2025) — about 8.4 km from the centre
Leicester January 2025 (2025) — about 8.4 km from the centre
Oadby January 2025 (2025) — about 2.5 km from the centre
Kilby January 2025 (2025) — about 2.7 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LE17 LE19 LE16 LE15 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.