Does OL13 flood?

Yes — parts of the OL13 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 83 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The OL13 postcode district covers Britannia & Lee Mill, Bacup, Whitewell & Stacksteads, close to Rossendale, Waterfoot, Portsmouth, and surrounding villages in parts of Lancashire and Greater Manchester.

83 postcodes in the OL13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 11 medium, 55 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 OL13 postcodes are at risk?

OL13 0BL up to High OL13 0EA up to High OL13 0EX up to High OL13 0EZ up to High OL13 0HB up to High OL13 0LD up to High OL13 0LF up to High OL13 0NB up to High OL13 0NH up to High OL13 0NR up to High OL13 0NT up to High OL13 0NU up to High OL13 0TY up to High OL13 0UF up to High OL13 8AB up to High OL13 9AA up to High OL13 9UX up to High OL13 0AS up to Medium OL13 0AU up to Medium OL13 0AY up to Medium OL13 0AZ up to Medium OL13 0BN up to Medium OL13 0DR up to Medium OL13 0DS up to Medium OL13 0EU up to Medium OL13 0TT up to Medium OL13 0TX up to Medium OL13 9QY up to Medium OL13 0AA up to Low OL13 0AD up to Low OL13 0AG up to Low OL13 0AR up to Low OL13 0AT up to Low OL13 0AX up to Low OL13 0BH up to Low OL13 0BW up to Low OL13 0BY up to Low OL13 0EL up to Low OL13 0ES up to Low OL13 0ET up to Low OL13 0HD up to Low OL13 0HF up to Low OL13 0HG up to Low OL13 0LQ up to Low OL13 0NL up to Low OL13 0NP up to Low OL13 0NS up to Low OL13 0PA up to Low OL13 0PZ up to Low OL13 0UA up to Low OL13 0UB up to Low OL13 0UD up to Low OL13 8AE up to Low OL13 8AN up to Low OL13 8AW up to Low OL13 8BN up to Low OL13 8BP up to Low OL13 8BS up to Low OL13 8DB up to Low OL13 8EN up to Low OL13 8PQ up to Low OL13 8QB up to Low OL13 8RY up to Low OL13 9AE up to Low OL13 9AG up to Low OL13 9AH up to Low OL13 9AQ up to Low OL13 9AR up to Low OL13 9AS up to Low OL13 9AW up to Low OL13 9BB up to Low OL13 9BD up to Low OL13 9ED up to Low OL13 9EF up to Low OL13 9EL up to Low OL13 9EP up to Low OL13 9EQ up to Low OL13 9HN up to Low OL13 9HS up to Low OL13 9NH up to Low OL13 9NJ up to Low OL13 9NQ up to Low OL13 9NW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near OL13

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

311 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (219 at warning level or above), most recently 14 December 2025. 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

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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.