Does LS8 flood?

Yes — parts of the LS8 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 47 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LS8 postcode district covers Gipton & Harehills, Killingbeck & Seacroft, Roundhay, Chapel Allerton, close to Leeds Killingbeck Inscreen, Leeds Killingbeck Dam, Leeds, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

47 postcodes in the LS8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 3 medium, 36 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 LS8 postcodes are at risk?

LS8 2JZ up to High LS8 3BP up to High LS8 3BR up to High LS8 3BS up to High LS8 3BU up to High LS8 3BX up to High LS8 4BX up to High LS8 4DP up to High LS8 3EE up to Medium LS8 5DR up to Medium LS8 5QP up to Medium LS8 3AZ up to Low LS8 3BW up to Low LS8 4EJ up to Low LS8 4EL up to Low LS8 4HT up to Low LS8 4HU up to Low LS8 4HX up to Low LS8 4HY up to Low LS8 4HZ up to Low LS8 4JA up to Low LS8 4JB up to Low LS8 4JD up to Low LS8 4JF up to Low LS8 4JH up to Low LS8 4JL up to Low LS8 4JN up to Low LS8 4JR up to Low LS8 4JU up to Low LS8 4LD up to Low LS8 4LE up to Low LS8 4LG up to Low LS8 4LP up to Low LS8 4LR up to Low LS8 5AD up to Low LS8 5AF up to Low LS8 5AQ up to Low LS8 5AT up to Low LS8 5AW up to Low LS8 5AX up to Low LS8 5DT up to Low LS8 5EB up to Low LS8 5EP up to Low LS8 5EW up to Low LS8 5EY up to Low LS8 5EZ up to Low LS8 5NA up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LS8

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

284 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 31 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

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

LS7 LS9 LS10 LS6 LS11 LS5 LS12 LS4

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.