Does LS15 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in LS15: none of its 7 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The LS15 postcode district covers Temple Newsam, Cross Gates & Whinmoor, close to Leeds, Leeds Killingbeck Dam, Leeds Killingbeck Inscreen, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

7 postcodes in the LS15 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 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 LS15 postcodes are at risk?

LS15 0NH up to Low LS15 0NQ up to Low LS15 7JL up to Low LS15 7JN up to Low LS15 8SP up to Low LS15 8SW up to Low LS15 8TT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LS15

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

Halton on the Wyke Beck — 1.4 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Gipton South Parkway on the Wyke Beck — 1.5 km away, highest on record 1.99m
Leeds Killingbeck Inscreen on the Wyke Beck — 1.7 km away, highest on record 3.22m
Leeds Crown Point on the River Aire — 5 km away, highest on record 2.96m

135 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (55 at warning level or above), most recently 31 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 18.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 18.7 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LS14 LS16 LS13 LS17 LS12 LS18 LS11 LS19

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.