Does LS27 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS27 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS27 postcode district covers Morley South, Morley North, Beeston & Holbeck, close to Leeds, Batley Carlinghow (up stream), Fenton Dam, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

6 postcodes in the LS27 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 1 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 LS27 postcodes are at risk?

LS27 0NZ up to High LS27 0PA up to High LS27 7GD up to High LS27 8UJ up to High LS27 8YT up to High LS27 7TH up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LS27

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

Wortley on the Wortley Beck — 3.8 km away, highest on record 2.02m
Batley Carlinghow on the Batley Beck — 4.2 km away, highest on record 2.63m
Birstall Smithies on the Batley Beck — 4.7 km away, highest on record 1.59m
Fenton Dam on the Bushy Beck — 5.1 km away, highest on record 7.10m

527 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (154 at warning level or above), most recently 4 September 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 10.3 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 14.7 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 41.6 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

LS26 LS28 LS25 LS29 LS24 LS23 LS22 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.