Does LS28 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS28 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS28 postcode district covers Pudsey, Calverley & Farsley, close to Kirkstall, Leeds, Horsforth Cornmill View, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

7 postcodes in the LS28 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 1 medium. 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 LS28 postcodes are at risk?

LS28 5RX up to High LS28 8FH up to High LS28 9LA up to High LS28 9LD up to High LS28 9LE up to High LS28 9LZ up to High LS28 8LL up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near LS28

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

Pudsey on the Farnley Beck — 2 km away, highest on record 1.50m
Kirkstall Abbey on the River Aire — 4.6 km away, highest on record 3.28m
Wortley on the Wortley Beck — 4.9 km away, highest on record 2.02m
Horsforth Cornmill View on the Oil Mill Beck — 5.6 km away, highest on record 1.98m

340 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (128 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 5.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 8.1 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

LS27 LS29 LS26 LS25 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.