Does LS20 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS20 district carry real flood risk: 15 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS20 postcode district covers Guiseley & Rawdon, close to Otley, Saltaire, Pool, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

22 postcodes in the LS20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 15 high, 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 LS20 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LS20

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

Apperley Bridge on the River Aire — 3.8 km away, highest on record 3.80m
Otley on the River Wharfe — 4.2 km away, highest on record 2.46m
Shipley on the Bradford Beck — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.81m
Saltaire on the River Aire — 6.3 km away, highest on record 2.84m

167 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (97 at warning level or above), most recently 11 February 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 9.9 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 3.2 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 50.4 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

LS19 LS21 LS18 LS22 LS17 LS23 LS16 LS24

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.