Does SK16 flood?

Yes — parts of the SK16 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 28 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SK16 postcode district covers Dukinfield, close to Haughton Green, Mossley, Hollingworth, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.

28 postcodes in the SK16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 5 medium, 18 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 SK16 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near SK16

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

Broomstairs Bridge on the River Tame — 3 km away, highest on record 2.54m
Waggon Road on the River Tame — 4.9 km away, highest on record 3.28m
Mossley Micklehurst Road on the Micklehurst Brook — 5.1 km away
Woolley Bridge on the River Etherow — 6.8 km away, highest on record 3.03m

102 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (43 at warning level or above), most recently 14 November 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Ashton-Under-Lyne NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 2.7 km from the centre
Dukinfield NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 0.4 km from the centre
2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 40.7 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 73.7 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

SK15 SK17 SK14 SK13 SK12 SK11 SK10 SK22

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.