Does LS5 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS5 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 14 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS5 postcode district covers Kirkstall, Armley, close to Horsforth Cornmill View, Pudsey, Leeds, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

14 postcodes in the LS5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 4 medium, 6 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 LS5 postcodes are at risk?

LS5 3BW up to High LS5 3BY up to High LS5 3JG up to High LS5 3RS up to High LS5 3AE up to Medium LS5 3BL up to Medium LS5 3BT up to Medium LS5 3RP up to Medium LS5 3AP up to Low LS5 3AQ up to Low LS5 3AR up to Low LS5 3BF up to Low LS5 3BP up to Low LS5 3HP up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LS5

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

Kirkstall Abbey on the River Aire — 0.4 km away, highest on record 3.28m
Horsforth Cornmill View on the Oil Mill Beck — 2.3 km away, highest on record 1.98m
Pudsey on the Farnley Beck — 2.5 km away, highest on record 1.50m
Armley on the River Aire — 2.6 km away, highest on record 5.21m

237 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (84 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 9.5 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 9.4 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

LS4 LS6 LS3 LS7 LS2 LS8 LS1 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.