Does WA10 flood?

Yes — parts of the WA10 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 52 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WA10 postcode district covers Windle, Eccleston, West Park, close to Haydock, St Helens, Ashton-In-Makerfield, and surrounding villages in parts of Warrington and Liverpool City Region.

52 postcodes in the WA10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 4 medium, 30 low, 1 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 WA10 postcodes are at risk?

WA10 4DR up to High WA10 4GX up to High WA10 4QS up to High WA10 4QY up to High WA10 4RA up to High WA10 4RB up to High WA10 4RD up to High WA10 4RL up to High WA10 4RN up to High WA10 6AJ up to High WA10 6AL up to High WA10 6AW up to High WA10 6AX up to High WA10 6AY up to High WA10 6RN up to High WA10 6RP up to High WA10 6RW up to High WA10 4QP up to Medium WA10 4RH up to Medium WA10 5QD up to Medium WA10 6DY up to Medium WA10 4DP up to Low WA10 4DT up to Low WA10 4DU up to Low WA10 4DW up to Low WA10 4DX up to Low WA10 4DY up to Low WA10 4DZ up to Low WA10 4EB up to Low WA10 4NE up to Low WA10 4NF up to Low WA10 4QR up to Low WA10 4QZ up to Low WA10 4RE up to Low WA10 4RJ up to Low WA10 4RP up to Low WA10 4RQ up to Low WA10 4RR up to Low WA10 5EG up to Low WA10 6AN up to Low WA10 6BB up to Low WA10 6BD up to Low WA10 6BE up to Low WA10 6BG up to Low WA10 6BJ up to Low WA10 6DU up to Low WA10 6DZ up to Low WA10 6EU up to Low WA10 6EX up to Low WA10 6RL up to Low WA10 6RU up to Low WA10 6RG up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WA10

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

85 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (38 at warning level or above), most recently 4 September 2026. 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

WA11 WA9 WA12 WA8 WA13 WA7 WA14 WA6

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.