Does LS3 flood?

Parts of the LS3 district carry moderate flood risk: 8 of its 24 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The LS3 postcode district covers Little London & Woodhouse, close to Leeds, Leeds Crown Point Weir, Kirkstall, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

24 postcodes in the LS3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 medium, 16 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 LS3 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near LS3

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

Armley on the River Aire — 0.6 km away, highest on record 5.21m
Leeds Crown Point on the River Aire — 2.1 km away, highest on record 2.96m
Wortley on the Wortley Beck — 2.7 km away, highest on record 2.02m
Meanwood on the Meanwood Beck — 3 km away, highest on record 1.93m

225 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (72 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 11.6 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

LS2 LS4 LS1 LS5 LS6 LS7 LS8 LS9

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.