Yes — parts of the PR1 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 148 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PR1 postcode district covers City Centre, Middleforth, Fishwick & Frenchwood, Howick & Priory, close to Lower Penwortham, Preston, Walton-Le-Dale, and surrounding villages in Lancashire.
148 postcodes in the PR1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 108 medium, 28 low, 2 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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The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:
241 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (67 at warning level or above), most recently 8 December 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.
Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):
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.