Does LE19 flood?

Yes — parts of the LE19 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LE19 postcode district covers Narborough & Littlethorpe, Thorpe Astley & St Mary's, Enderby, Braunstone Millfield, close to Littlethorpe, Whetstone, Leicester Braunstone, and surrounding villages in parts of Leicestershire and City of Leicester.

22 postcodes in the LE19 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 5 medium, 13 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 LE19 postcodes are at risk?

LE19 2DT up to High LE19 2HR up to High LE19 2JL up to High LE19 2PT up to High LE19 1WQ up to Medium LE19 2BH up to Medium LE19 2ED up to Medium LE19 2HB up to Medium LE19 2HS up to Medium LE19 1UX up to Low LE19 1WL up to Low LE19 1WP up to Low LE19 1WR up to Low LE19 1WY up to Low LE19 1WZ up to Low LE19 2DB up to Low LE19 2GA up to Low LE19 2GE up to Low LE19 2GJ up to Low LE19 2HP up to Low LE19 2JB up to Low LE19 2LU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LE19

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

Littlethorpe on the River Soar — 1.1 km away, highest on record 2.78m
Whetstone on the Whetstone Brook — 3.5 km away, highest on record 1.96m
Leicester Tuffleys Way on the Thorpe Astley Brook — 4 km away, highest on record 1.24m
South Wigston on the River Sence — 4.3 km away, highest on record 3.65m

493 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (50 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 9.6 km from the centre
Blaby January 2025 (2025) — about 2.3 km from the centre
Croft January 2025 (2025) — about 3.9 km from the centre
Braunstone January 2025 (2025) — about 3.8 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LE18 LE17 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.