Does LS23 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS23 district carry real flood risk: 14 of its 26 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS23 postcode district covers Wetherby, close to Bramham, Tadcaster, Collingham, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

26 postcodes in the LS23 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 14 high, 7 medium, 4 low, 1 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 LS23 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LS23

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

Bramham Screens on the Bramham Beck — 1.4 km away, highest on record 1.68m
Flint Mill on the River Wharfe — 3.2 km away, highest on record 3.74m
Tadcaster on the River Wharfe — 4.8 km away, highest on record 4.51m
Collingham on the River Wharfe — 5.1 km away, highest on record 5.25m

158 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 23 January 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 28.3 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 25.9 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.