Does LU5 flood?

Yes — parts of the LU5 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LU5 postcode district covers Houghton Regis West, Houghton Regis East, Toddington, Dunstable East, close to Leagrave, Stopsley, Leighton Buzzard, and surrounding villages in parts of Central Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire.

22 postcodes in the LU5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 6 medium, 14 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 LU5 postcodes are at risk?

LU5 6TN up to High LU5 6TQ up to High LU5 5LE up to Medium LU5 5SQ up to Medium LU5 5TR up to Medium LU5 5TS up to Medium LU5 5TU up to Medium LU5 6RD up to Medium LU5 5GZ up to Low LU5 5LJ up to Low LU5 5QX up to Low LU5 5QY up to Low LU5 5SD up to Low LU5 5SF up to Low LU5 5SH up to Low LU5 5TZ up to Low LU5 5UT up to Low LU5 6GJ up to Low LU5 6GN up to Low LU5 6GQ up to Low LU5 6GS up to Low LU5 6TP up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near LU5

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

Luton, Stockingstone Road on the River Lee — 6.9 km away, highest on record 1.29m
CLIPSTONE BROOK GS LEIGHTON BUZZARD WITS DO NOT POLL MANUALLY — 8.1 km away
CLIPSTONE BROOK GS LEIGHTON BUZZARD WITS DO NOT POLL MANUALLY — 8.1 km away
Clipstone Brook on the Clipstone Brook — 8.1 km away, highest on record 2.71m

21 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (21 at warning level or above), most recently 27 September 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

March 1947 flooding — about 2.3 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

LU4 LU6 LU3 LU7 LU2 LU1

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.