Does WA3 flood?

Yes — parts of the WA3 district carry real flood risk: 38 of its 85 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WA3 postcode district covers Culcheth, Glazebury and Croft, Golborne & Lowton West, Rixton and Woolston, Lowton East, close to Leigh, Glazebrook, Atherton, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Warrington.

85 postcodes in the WA3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 38 high, 13 medium, 30 low, 4 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 WA3 postcodes are at risk?

WA3 1AZ up to High WA3 1BS up to High WA3 2EP up to High WA3 2ER up to High WA3 2HH up to High WA3 2HU up to High WA3 2HX up to High WA3 2JG up to High WA3 2JQ up to High WA3 3BE up to High WA3 3EZ up to High WA3 3HF up to High WA3 3HG up to High WA3 3HY up to High WA3 3NH up to High WA3 3NS up to High WA3 3NU up to High WA3 3QQ up to High WA3 3QZ up to High WA3 3RB up to High WA3 4BJ up to High WA3 4BN up to High WA3 4BS up to High WA3 4BT up to High WA3 4BW up to High WA3 4EY up to High WA3 4HA up to High WA3 4JH up to High WA3 4JX up to High WA3 4LF up to High WA3 4LZ up to High WA3 5LH up to High WA3 5LX up to High WA3 5PY up to High WA3 7DA up to High WA3 7DZ up to High WA3 7HE up to High WA3 7HF up to High WA3 1AX up to Medium WA3 1FQ up to Medium WA3 3BD up to Medium WA3 3QE up to Medium WA3 5LY up to Medium WA3 5NH up to Medium WA3 5NJ up to Medium WA3 5NN up to Medium WA3 5NR up to Medium WA3 5NU up to Medium WA3 5QL up to Medium WA3 6DS up to Medium WA3 6DT up to Medium WA3 1EG up to Low WA3 2HQ up to Low WA3 2HT up to Low WA3 3GT up to Low WA3 3HE up to Low WA3 3PY up to Low WA3 3QD up to Low WA3 3QL up to Low WA3 3QN up to Low WA3 3XT up to Low WA3 4AW up to Low WA3 4HE up to Low WA3 4JY up to Low WA3 4LG up to Low WA3 4LN up to Low WA3 5AU up to Low WA3 5AX up to Low WA3 5JH up to Low WA3 5LA up to Low WA3 5NP up to Low WA3 5NS up to Low WA3 5NT up to Low WA3 5NX up to Low WA3 5NY up to Low WA3 5NZ up to Low WA3 5PA up to Low WA3 5QE up to Low WA3 5QQ up to Low WA3 6HA up to Low WA3 7HD up to Low WA3 5NF up to Very low WA3 5PG up to Very low WA3 5PJ up to Very low WA3 5PT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WA3

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

275 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (192 at warning level or above), most recently 20 August 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

WA2 WA4 WA1 WA5 WA6 WA7 WA8 WA9

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.