Does M45 flood?

Yes — parts of the M45 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The M45 postcode district covers Besses, Pilkington Park, close to Bury, Radcliffe, Salford, and surrounding villages in Greater Manchester.

6 postcodes in the M45 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 3 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 M45 postcodes are at risk?

M45 7RQ up to High M45 8LH up to High M45 8LL up to High M45 8LB up to Low M45 8LJ up to Low M45 8RL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near M45

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

Blackford Bridge on the River Roch — 1.4 km away, highest on record 3.36m
Pioneer Mills on the River Irwell — 2.5 km away, highest on record 5.92m
Bury Ground on the River Irwell — 5.1 km away, highest on record 2.18m
Littleton Road River on the River Irwell — 5.1 km away, highest on record 4.98m

243 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (79 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):

Radcliffe (2023) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Redvales (2020) — about 3.3 km from the centre
Higher Blackley (2015) — about 3.9 km from the centre
Radcliffe and Redvales (2015) — about 2.5 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 M46 M43 M41 M40 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.