Does LS6 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS6 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 28 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS6 postcode district covers Moortown, Weetwood, Chapel Allerton, Headingley & Hyde Park, close to Leeds, Kirkstall, Horsforth Cornmill View, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

28 postcodes in the LS6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 3 medium, 15 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 LS6 postcodes are at risk?

LS6 2SA up to High LS6 2SB up to High LS6 2SD up to High LS6 2SL up to High LS6 4AW up to High LS6 4EP up to High LS6 4HE up to High LS6 4HW up to High LS6 4RA up to High LS6 4RD up to High LS6 4AQ up to Medium LS6 4ER up to Medium LS6 4HJ up to Medium LS6 2BE up to Low LS6 2BH up to Low LS6 2FJ up to Low LS6 2SE up to Low LS6 4EH up to Low LS6 4HF up to Low LS6 4HH up to Low LS6 4HN up to Low LS6 4JY up to Low LS6 4QH up to Low LS6 4RB up to Low LS6 4RE up to Low LS6 4RF up to Low LS6 4RG up to Low LS6 4RQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LS6

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

Meanwood on the Meanwood Beck — 0.2 km away, highest on record 1.93m
Kirkstall Abbey on the River Aire — 2.5 km away, highest on record 3.28m
Armley on the River Aire — 2.8 km away, highest on record 5.21m
Horsforth Cornmill View on the Oil Mill Beck — 3.4 km away, highest on record 1.98m

244 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (91 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 12.2 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

LS5 LS7 LS4 LS8 LS3 LS9 LS10 LS2

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.