Does WF6 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF6 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 34 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF6 postcode district covers Normanton, Altofts and Whitwood, Stanley and Outwood East, close to Whitwood, Birkwood, Castleford, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

34 postcodes in the WF6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 6 medium, 15 low, 1 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 WF6 postcodes are at risk?

WF6 1PA up to High WF6 1PD up to High WF6 1SD up to High WF6 1SE up to High WF6 1SH up to High WF6 1SL up to High WF6 1SP up to High WF6 1SQ up to High WF6 1SU up to High WF6 1SX up to High WF6 2PE up to High WF6 2PH up to High WF6 1JB up to Medium WF6 1RW up to Medium WF6 1SG up to Medium WF6 1TF up to Medium WF6 1TW up to Medium WF6 2PQ up to Medium WF6 1PE up to Low WF6 1PF up to Low WF6 1SF up to Low WF6 1TG up to Low WF6 1TJ up to Low WF6 1TY up to Low WF6 1TZ up to Low WF6 1WB up to Low WF6 1WD up to Low WF6 1WE up to Low WF6 1WG up to Low WF6 1WH up to Low WF6 1WJ up to Low WF6 2JA up to Low WF6 2TZ up to Low WF6 2JE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WF6

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

Methley on the River Calder — 3.4 km away, highest on record 3.69m
Birkwood on the River Calder — 3.9 km away, highest on record 5.22m
Castleford on the River Aire — 4.8 km away, highest on record 3.36m
Allerton Ings on the Aire Washlands — 5.3 km away, highest on record 2.94m

290 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (105 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 23.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 27.3 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 30 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.