Does WF12 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF12 district carry real flood risk: 20 of its 108 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF12 postcode district covers Kirkburton, close to Dewsbury, Batley Savile Street, Ravensthorpe, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.

108 postcodes in the WF12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 20 high, 7 medium, 75 low, 6 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 WF12 postcodes are at risk?

WF12 0QE up to High WF12 0QN up to High WF12 7JL up to High WF12 8BU up to High WF12 8JZ up to High WF12 8LL up to High WF12 8LN up to High WF12 9BQ up to High WF12 9BZ up to High WF12 9EE up to High WF12 9EJ up to High WF12 9EQ up to High WF12 9FA up to High WF12 9LQ up to High WF12 9NP up to High WF12 9PY up to High WF12 9QB up to High WF12 9QE up to High WF12 9QW up to High WF12 9RD up to High WF12 7PZ up to Medium WF12 7QU up to Medium WF12 8AB up to Medium WF12 8DD up to Medium WF12 8EN up to Medium WF12 9HD up to Medium WF12 9QT up to Medium WF12 0PE up to Low WF12 8AR up to Low WF12 8DF up to Low WF12 8DN up to Low WF12 8DZ up to Low WF12 8EB up to Low WF12 8EH up to Low WF12 8EQ up to Low WF12 8PG up to Low WF12 8PP up to Low WF12 8RH up to Low WF12 9AE up to Low WF12 9AF up to Low WF12 9AG up to Low WF12 9AH up to Low WF12 9AL up to Low WF12 9AN up to Low WF12 9AP up to Low WF12 9AQ up to Low WF12 9AR up to Low WF12 9AT up to Low WF12 9AU up to Low WF12 9AW up to Low WF12 9AY up to Low WF12 9BB up to Low WF12 9BD up to Low WF12 9BE up to Low WF12 9BS up to Low WF12 9BU up to Low WF12 9BX up to Low WF12 9DE up to Low WF12 9DF up to Low WF12 9DG up to Low WF12 9DH up to Low WF12 9DJ up to Low WF12 9DL up to Low WF12 9DQ up to Low WF12 9DX up to Low WF12 9DY up to Low WF12 9DZ up to Low WF12 9EA up to Low WF12 9EF up to Low WF12 9EL up to Low WF12 9HH up to Low WF12 9HJ up to Low WF12 9HL up to Low WF12 9HN up to Low WF12 9HP up to Low WF12 9HR up to Low WF12 9HS up to Low WF12 9HT up to Low WF12 9HU up to Low WF12 9HX up to Low WF12 9HZ up to Low WF12 9JA up to Low WF12 9LN up to Low WF12 9LT up to Low WF12 9LW up to Low WF12 9PJ up to Low WF12 9PN up to Low WF12 9PP up to Low WF12 9PR up to Low WF12 9PS up to Low WF12 9PT up to Low WF12 9PU up to Low WF12 9PW up to Low WF12 9QF up to Low WF12 9QH up to Low WF12 9QJ up to Low WF12 9QL up to Low WF12 9QN up to Low WF12 9QP up to Low WF12 9QR up to Low WF12 9QS up to Low WF12 9TA up to Low WF12 8AE up to Very low WF12 8EE up to Very low WF12 8EF up to Very low WF12 9HA up to Very low WF12 9HG up to Very low WF12 9HW up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WF12

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

426 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (213 at warning level or above), most recently 30 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

WF11 WF13 WF10 WF14 WF15 WF9 WF16 WF8

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.