Does M60 flood?

Yes — parts of the M60 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The M60 postcode district covers Deansgate, Ordsall, Cheetham, close to Salford, Manchester, Broughton, and surrounding villages in Greater Manchester.

4 postcodes in the M60 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 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 M60 postcodes are at risk?

M60 9HL up to High M60 7HA up to Low M60 9HP up to Low M60 9ST up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near M60

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

London Road on the River Medlock — 1.6 km away, highest on record 1.80m
Manchester Racecourse on the River Irwell — 2.4 km away, highest on record 5.67m
Littleton Road River on the River Irwell — 4 km away, highest on record 4.98m
Northenden on the River Mersey — 8.2 km away, highest on record 3.76m

308 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (113 at warning level or above), most recently 3 September 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Manchester Manchester - NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 1.2 km from the centre
Manchester Harpurhey - NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 1.2 km from the centre
Manchester Castlefields - NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 0.8 km from the centre
Collyhurst Road, (2019) — about 1.8 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

M50 M46 M45 M44 M43 M41 M40 M34

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.