Does WF15 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF15 district carry real flood risk: 38 of its 50 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF15 postcode district covers Heckmondwike, close to Liversedge, Cleckheaton, Ravensthorpe, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

50 postcodes in the WF15 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 38 high, 5 medium, 7 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 WF15 postcodes are at risk?

WF15 6AR up to High WF15 6AS up to High WF15 6AT up to High WF15 6BE up to High WF15 6BS up to High WF15 6BZ up to High WF15 6DF up to High WF15 6DG up to High WF15 6DH up to High WF15 6DJ up to High WF15 6DL up to High WF15 6DN up to High WF15 6DP up to High WF15 6EB up to High WF15 6EE up to High WF15 6EF up to High WF15 6JB up to High WF15 6JE up to High WF15 6JF up to High WF15 6JL up to High WF15 6JQ up to High WF15 6JY up to High WF15 6LW up to High WF15 6QP up to High WF15 6RA up to High WF15 7BA up to High WF15 7BH up to High WF15 7BL up to High WF15 7BN up to High WF15 7BQ up to High WF15 7BT up to High WF15 7EG up to High WF15 7EN up to High WF15 7FD up to High WF15 7FH up to High WF15 7HZ up to High WF15 7JE up to High WF15 7JS up to High WF15 6BY up to Medium WF15 6DQ up to Medium WF15 6JS up to Medium WF15 6JZ up to Medium WF15 7ER up to Medium WF15 6DA up to Low WF15 6DU up to Low WF15 6JN up to Low WF15 6QN up to Low WF15 6QW up to Low WF15 7BJ up to Low WF15 7EE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WF15

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

288 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (184 at warning level or above), most recently 27 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

WF14 WF16 WF13 WF17 WF12 WF11 WF10 WF9

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.