Does M46 flood?

Yes — parts of the M46 district carry real flood risk: 9 of its 67 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The M46 postcode district covers Hulton, close to Atherton, Leigh, Tyldesley, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Warrington.

67 postcodes in the M46 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 9 high, 10 medium, 43 low, 5 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 M46 postcodes are at risk?

M46 0LN up to High M46 0PG up to High M46 0QU up to High M46 0RW up to High M46 9BJ up to High M46 9BN up to High M46 9DU up to High M46 9NA up to High M46 9SA up to High M46 0HZ up to Medium M46 0PQ up to Medium M46 9AT up to Medium M46 9DB up to Medium M46 9JG up to Medium M46 9JL up to Medium M46 9JQ up to Medium M46 9JY up to Medium M46 9RB up to Medium M46 9RY up to Medium M46 0EZ up to Low M46 0FT up to Low M46 0FY up to Low M46 0GL up to Low M46 0GN up to Low M46 0GU up to Low M46 0GW up to Low M46 0GX up to Low M46 0GZ up to Low M46 0HL up to Low M46 0JQ up to Low M46 0JR up to Low M46 0JS up to Low M46 0LG up to Low M46 0LJ up to Low M46 0LL up to Low M46 0LQ up to Low M46 0LW up to Low M46 0NJ up to Low M46 0NL up to Low M46 0NN up to Low M46 0NY up to Low M46 0PN up to Low M46 0PW up to Low M46 0QL up to Low M46 0RA up to Low M46 0RG up to Low M46 0RN up to Low M46 0RP up to Low M46 0SJ up to Low M46 9EF up to Low M46 9EH up to Low M46 9EQ up to Low M46 9ES up to Low M46 9FD up to Low M46 9FF up to Low M46 9GQ up to Low M46 9HH up to Low M46 9JZ up to Low M46 9LW up to Low M46 9LX up to Low M46 9QZ up to Low M46 9RZ up to Low M46 9HT up to Very low M46 9HU up to Very low M46 9LB up to Very low M46 9QG up to Very low M46 9QL up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near M46

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

99 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (61 at warning level or above), most recently 20 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

M45 M44 M43 M50 M41 M40 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.