Does WF17 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF17 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 63 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF17 postcode district covers Batley East, Batley West, Birstall and Birkenshaw, Morley South, close to Batley Carlinghow (up stream), Batley Savile Street, Dewsbury, and surrounding villages in West Yorkshire.

63 postcodes in the WF17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 10 medium, 43 low, 3 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 WF17 postcodes are at risk?

WF17 0BL up to High WF17 0PS up to High WF17 5LZ up to High WF17 5QB up to High WF17 6HT up to High WF17 6JA up to High WF17 6JF up to High WF17 5LS up to Medium WF17 5LW up to Medium WF17 5LY up to Medium WF17 5ND up to Medium WF17 5PH up to Medium WF17 5PN up to Medium WF17 5PW up to Medium WF17 6FF up to Medium WF17 6JD up to Medium WF17 9AU up to Medium WF17 0AF up to Low WF17 0AS up to Low WF17 0BA up to Low WF17 5HQ up to Low WF17 5JX up to Low WF17 5JY up to Low WF17 5JZ up to Low WF17 5LE up to Low WF17 5LP up to Low WF17 5PG up to Low WF17 5PL up to Low WF17 5PQ up to Low WF17 5PS up to Low WF17 5SA up to Low WF17 5SU up to Low WF17 6HU up to Low WF17 6HY up to Low WF17 6JG up to Low WF17 6JL up to Low WF17 6JQ up to Low WF17 6LF up to Low WF17 8BB up to Low WF17 8HA up to Low WF17 8HF up to Low WF17 8HG up to Low WF17 8LB up to Low WF17 8LL up to Low WF17 8LQ up to Low WF17 8LX up to Low WF17 8NA up to Low WF17 8ND up to Low WF17 8NE up to Low WF17 8NG up to Low WF17 8NN up to Low WF17 8NS up to Low WF17 8PA up to Low WF17 8PR up to Low WF17 9AR up to Low WF17 9AT up to Low WF17 9HT up to Low WF17 9JB up to Low WF17 9JD up to Low WF17 9LE up to Low WF17 0PY up to Very low WF17 0QA up to Very low WF17 9JZ up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WF17

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

401 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (178 at warning level or above), most recently 4 September 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

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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.