Does M43 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in M43: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The M43 postcode district covers Droylsden West, close to Ancouts, Manchester, Fallowfield, and surrounding villages in Greater Manchester.

1 postcode in the M43 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 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 M43 postcodes are at risk?

M43 7RX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near M43

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

London Road on the River Medlock — 4.7 km away, highest on record 1.80m
Broomstairs Bridge on the River Tame — 6 km away, highest on record 2.54m
Manchester Racecourse on the River Irwell — 7.2 km away, highest on record 5.67m
Portwood on the River Tame — 7.6 km away, highest on record 2.26m

189 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (59 at warning level or above), most recently 15 December 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 60.3 km from the centre
FAILSWORTH (2019) — about 2.8 km from the centre
June 2007 Flood Event (Ridings Area) (2007) — about 45.5 km from the centre
EA01326_30 July 2002_River Medlock_Droylsden (2002) — about 0.2 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

M44 M41 M45 M40 M46 M50 M34 M33

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.