Does WF5 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF5 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF5 postcode district covers Ossett, close to Horbury, Wakefield, Fenton Dam, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire.

7 postcodes in the WF5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 2 medium, 4 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 WF5 postcodes are at risk?

WF5 8NF up to High WF5 8LT up to Medium WF5 8NE up to Medium WF5 0HW up to Low WF5 0NP up to Low WF5 8ND up to Low WF5 8NG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WF5

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

Horbury on the River Calder — 2 km away, highest on record 4.10m
Wakefield Grasmere Road on the Alverthorpe Beck — 3.8 km away, highest on record 1.39m
Fenton Dam on the Bushy Beck — 3.9 km away, highest on record 7.10m
Dewsbury on the River Calder — 4 km away, highest on record 5.89m

361 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (147 at warning level or above), most recently 3 September 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 16.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 22.3 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 41.9 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

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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.