Does WA13 flood?

Yes — parts of the WA13 district carry real flood risk: 20 of its 39 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WA13 postcode district covers Lymm North and Thelwall, Lymm South, High Legh, Bowdon, close to Warrington, Little Bollington, Partington, and surrounding villages in parts of Warrington and Greater Manchester.

39 postcodes in the WA13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 20 high, 6 medium, 13 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 WA13 postcodes are at risk?

WA13 0AB up to High WA13 0HR up to High WA13 0TN up to High WA13 9AH up to High WA13 9AS up to High WA13 9BA up to High WA13 9BN up to High WA13 9BT up to High WA13 9BW up to High WA13 9BX up to High WA13 9DQ up to High WA13 9NT up to High WA13 9PH up to High WA13 9QH up to High WA13 9QL up to High WA13 9QN up to High WA13 9QP up to High WA13 9QS up to High WA13 9QW up to High WA13 9SD up to High WA13 0TW up to Medium WA13 9AB up to Medium WA13 9AN up to Medium WA13 9BJ up to Medium WA13 9BU up to Medium WA13 9BY up to Medium WA13 0AD up to Low WA13 0TE up to Low WA13 9AL up to Low WA13 9BL up to Low WA13 9DN up to Low WA13 9PS up to Low WA13 9PU up to Low WA13 9PZ up to Low WA13 9QA up to Low WA13 9RU up to Low WA13 9RY up to Low WA13 9SJ up to Low WA13 9SU up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WA13

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

281 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (206 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):

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

WA12 WA14 WA11 WA15 WA10 WA16 WA9 WA8

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.