Does LS18 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS18 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 34 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS18 postcode district covers Horsforth, Otley & Yeadon, Kirkstall, Adel & Wharfedale, close to Horsforth Cornmill View, Pudsey, Leeds, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

34 postcodes in the LS18 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 13 medium, 9 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 LS18 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LS18

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

Horsforth Cornmill View on the Oil Mill Beck — 1.7 km away, highest on record 1.98m
Kirkstall Abbey on the River Aire — 3.2 km away, highest on record 3.28m
Apperley Bridge on the River Aire — 4.2 km away, highest on record 3.80m
Pudsey on the Farnley Beck — 4.5 km away, highest on record 1.50m

255 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (102 at warning level or above), most recently 30 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 8.7 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 6.3 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

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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.