Does PR8 flood?

Yes — parts of the PR8 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PR8 postcode district covers Ainsdale, Duke's, Cambridge, Kew, close to Ormskirk, and surrounding villages in Lancashire.

22 postcodes in the PR8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 8 medium, 6 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 PR8 postcodes are at risk?

PR8 1QX up to High PR8 1RY up to High PR8 1SB up to High PR8 3JG up to Medium PR8 3NY up to Medium PR8 3NZ up to Medium PR8 3RS up to Medium PR8 3RY up to Medium PR8 3SX up to Medium PR8 3SY up to Medium PR8 5JR up to Medium PR8 3HN up to Low PR8 5FF up to Low PR8 5HS up to Low PR8 5HY up to Low PR8 5JA up to Low PR8 5JF up to Low PR8 1RX up to Very low PR8 1SA up to Very low PR8 3DL up to Very low PR8 5JD up to Very low PR8 6XH up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near PR8

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

Dyers lane on the Sandy Brook — 9.7 km away, highest on record 1.32m
Dovers Bridge on the Dovers Brook — 12.6 km away, highest on record 2.59m
Wanes Blades on the River Douglas — 13.9 km away, highest on record 3.80m
Parbold on the River Douglas — 15.5 km away, highest on record 3.60m

105 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (2 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):

16th June 2016 (2016) — about 0.5 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PR7 PR9 PR6 PR5 PR4 PR3 PR2 PR1

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.