Does WF16 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF16 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 12 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF16 postcode district covers Heckmondwike, close to Liversedge, Ravensthorpe, Cleckheaton, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

12 postcodes in the WF16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 1 medium. 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 WF16 postcodes are at risk?

WF16 0ER up to High WF16 0ET up to High WF16 0HH up to High WF16 0HL up to High WF16 0JZ up to High WF16 0NF up to High WF16 0NG up to High WF16 0NQ up to High WF16 0PN up to High WF16 0PS up to High WF16 0PX up to High WF16 0NH up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near WF16

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

Liversedge Halifax Road on the Lands Beck — 1.2 km away, highest on record 1.62m
Northorpe on the Spen Beck — 2.3 km away, highest on record 1.68m
Cleckheaton Thornton Street on the Spen Beck — 2.7 km away, highest on record 1.97m
Birstall Smithies on the Batley Beck — 2.8 km away, highest on record 1.59m

303 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (199 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):

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 9.9 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 16.6 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 47.2 km from the centre

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

WF15 WF17 WF14 WF13 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.