Does LS17 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS17 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 31 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS17 postcode district covers Alwoodley, Harewood, Washburn & Birstwith, Spofforth with Lower Wharfedale & Tockwith, close to Bardsey, Weeton, Collingham, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

31 postcodes in the LS17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 7 medium, 11 low, 2 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 LS17 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LS17

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

Bardsey on the Bardsey Beck — 3.8 km away, highest on record 2.13m
Arthington on the River Wharfe — 4.8 km away, highest on record 4.33m
Collingham on the River Wharfe — 6.6 km away, highest on record 5.25m
Gipton South Parkway on the Wyke Beck — 7 km away, highest on record 1.99m

222 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (85 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 18.8 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 16 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 37.2 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

LS16 LS18 LS15 LS19 LS14 LS20 LS13 LS21

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.