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Does WF8 flood?

Yes — parts of the WF8 district carry real flood risk: 21 of its 33 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WF8 postcode district covers Ackworth, North Elmsall and Upton, Osgoldcross, close to Pontefract, Ferrybridge, Went Bridge, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.

33 postcodes in the WF8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 21 high, 1 medium, 9 low, 2 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 WF8 postcodes are at risk?

WF8 1HG up to High WF8 2JJ up to High WF8 2JL up to High WF8 2JP up to High WF8 2JU up to High WF8 2JX up to High WF8 2LE up to High WF8 2LG up to High WF8 2LH up to High WF8 2LJ up to High WF8 2LQ up to High WF8 2UR up to High WF8 2UT up to High WF8 2UU up to High WF8 2UX up to High WF8 2WA up to High WF8 2WQ up to High WF8 3EQ up to High WF8 3JW up to High WF8 3QY up to High WF8 4SP up to High WF8 2TH up to Medium WF8 2HA up to Low WF8 2JG up to Low WF8 2LN up to Low WF8 2TA up to Low WF8 3DD up to Low WF8 3EF up to Low WF8 3HD up to Low WF8 3HE up to Low WF8 4HN up to Low WF8 3JJ up to Very low WF8 3JN up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WF8

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

143 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (80 at warning level or above), most recently 30 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

WF7 WF9 WF10 WF6 WF11 WF5 WF12 WF4

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.