Does WA16 flood?

Yes — parts of the WA16 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WA16 postcode district covers Mobberley, High Legh, Knutsford, Shakerley, close to Little Bollington, Wilmslow, Styal, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Cheshire West and Chester.

21 postcodes in the WA16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 3 medium, 12 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 WA16 postcodes are at risk?

WA16 0JW up to High WA16 0PW up to High WA16 0QZ up to High WA16 7HU up to High WA16 7HX up to High WA16 9JB up to High WA16 0QX up to Medium WA16 6JL up to Medium WA16 8PR up to Medium WA16 0HB up to Low WA16 0HS up to Low WA16 0RF up to Low WA16 7LS up to Low WA16 7LY up to Low WA16 7NA up to Low WA16 7QQ up to Low WA16 7QW up to Low WA16 8GT up to Low WA16 8HY up to Low WA16 8ZR up to Low WA16 9SN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WA16

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

Bollington Mill on the River Bollin — 7.8 km away, highest on record 1.50m
Wilmslow on the River Bollin — 9.9 km away, highest on record 1.90m
Stanneylands on the Dean — 10 km away, highest on record 1.72m
Partington on the Sinderland Brook — 11.1 km away, highest on record 1.58m

100 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (29 at warning level or above), most recently 26 January 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

WA15 WA14 WA13 WA12 WA11 WA10 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.