Does M22 flood?

Yes — parts of the M22 district carry real flood risk: 16 of its 94 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The M22 postcode district covers Northenden, Woodhouse Park, Sharston, close to Didsbury, Northern Moor, Cheadle, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Cheshire East.

94 postcodes in the M22 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 16 high, 44 medium, 9 low, 25 very 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 M22 postcodes are at risk?

M22 1WU up to High M22 4FR up to High M22 4NQ up to High M22 4UQ up to High M22 9RA up to High M22 9RF up to High M22 9RJ up to High M22 9RL up to High M22 9RN up to High M22 9RR up to High M22 9RS up to High M22 9RT up to High M22 9RU up to High M22 9RX up to High M22 9RZ up to High M22 9SA up to High M22 4GA up to Medium M22 4HS up to Medium M22 4PA up to Medium M22 4PS up to Medium M22 4PU up to Medium M22 4PX up to Medium M22 4PZ up to Medium M22 4QA up to Medium M22 4QH up to Medium M22 4QZ up to Medium M22 4UW up to Medium M22 4XN up to Medium M22 4YR up to Medium M22 4ZA up to Medium M22 8AB up to Medium M22 8AD up to Medium M22 8AG up to Medium M22 8AH up to Medium M22 8AJ up to Medium M22 8AN up to Medium M22 8AW up to Medium M22 8BR up to Medium M22 8DE up to Medium M22 8DF up to Medium M22 8DG up to Medium M22 8DH up to Medium M22 8DJ up to Medium M22 8DN up to Medium M22 8DR up to Medium M22 8DS up to Medium M22 8DT up to Medium M22 8DU up to Medium M22 8DX up to Medium M22 8JR up to Medium M22 8JS up to Medium M22 8LD up to Medium M22 8UA up to Medium M22 8UB up to Medium M22 8UD up to Medium M22 8UG up to Medium M22 9GJ up to Medium M22 9QJ up to Medium M22 9RB up to Medium M22 9UE up to Medium M22 4DZ up to Low M22 4RQ up to Low M22 8AA up to Low M22 8BF up to Low M22 8DQ up to Low M22 8DY up to Low M22 8FG up to Low M22 8FQ up to Low M22 9QB up to Low M22 4ED up to Very low M22 4EF up to Very low M22 4EG up to Very low M22 4EQ up to Very low M22 4ET up to Very low M22 4EU up to Very low M22 4EW up to Very low M22 4EX up to Very low M22 4EY up to Very low M22 4FB up to Very low M22 4FD up to Very low M22 4FE up to Very low M22 4FN up to Very low M22 4FP up to Very low M22 4FS up to Very low M22 4FW up to Very low M22 4HA up to Very low M22 4HE up to Very low M22 4HF up to Very low M22 4HH up to Very low M22 4HJ up to Very low M22 4HL up to Very low M22 4HN up to Very low M22 4HR up to Very low M22 4HW up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near M22

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

275 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (81 at warning level or above), most recently 21 February 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

M21 M23 M20 M24 M19 M25 M18 M26

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.