Does SK9 flood?

Yes — parts of the SK9 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SK9 postcode district covers Handforth, close to Wilmslow, Styal, Bramhall Green, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Cheshire East.

30 postcodes in the SK9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 9 medium, 9 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 SK9 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near SK9

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

Wilmslow on the River Bollin — 0.5 km away, highest on record 1.90m
Stanneylands on the Dean — 1.7 km away, highest on record 1.72m
Bramhall Green Bridge Lane on the Micker Brook — 7.2 km away
Prestbury on the River Bollin — 7.2 km away, highest on record 2.21m

139 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (68 at warning level or above), most recently 26 January 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Cheshire East Wilmslow - NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 3.7 km from the centre
Whitehall Brook - Storm Henk (2024) — about 1.7 km from the centre
WILMSLOW (2019) — about 1.4 km from the centre
Wilmslow (2019) — about 1.4 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

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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.