Does Baildon flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Baildon

Ordnance Survey places 28 postcodes in Baildon in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset (Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea). Each postcode is counted once, under the worst band any of its properties reaches; together they hold 215 properties in the EA dataset's likelihood bands.

This dataset covers flooding from rivers and the sea only — one of five flood sources. Surface water, groundwater, sewers and reservoirs are assessed separately, so a postcode missing from it is not proof that a place cannot flood. The band describes the land around properties (allowing for defences), not any single address and not today's conditions.

Rivers and live river levels near Baildon

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Baildon watch Bradford Beck, River Aire, River Worth, River Wharfe.

• Shipley
  Bradford Beck · 1.0 km away 0.16 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Saltaire
  River Aire · 1.1 km away 0.34 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Cottingley Bridge
  River Aire · 3.7 km away 0.36 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Apperley Bridge
  River Aire · 4.4 km away 0.03 m
  below normal · steady · 31 min ago
• Bingley
  River Aire · 4.7 km away 0.23 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Bradford Greenside
  Bradford Beck · 5.4 km away 0.86 m
  below normal · steady · 31 min ago
• Keighley Dalton Lane
  River Worth · 8.5 km away 0.03 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Stockbridge
  River Aire · 8.7 km away -0.01 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago
• Otley
  River Wharfe · 8.9 km away 0.40 m
  normal range · steady · 46 min ago
• Keighley
  River Worth · 9.0 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · steady · 31 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Baildon's at-risk postcodes. Tidal and structure gauges are shown as readings only — the tide and sluice gates move them, not floods. A gauge with no recent reading shows no level.

Flood warning areas near Baildon

22 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Baildon. The EA has issued 147 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 11 Feb 2026.

• Shipley including east of Hirst Mill extending through Roberts Park towards Baildon Bridge. Also includes the Charlestown area from Dockfield Road as far as Buck Mill Bridge
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 0.4 km
• Nab Wood including Branksome Drive and Branksome Grove
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2020 2.7 km
• Esholt including Esholt Lane, Cuncliffe Lane Chapel Lane to Esholt Waste Water Treatment Works and along Guiseley Beck and Gill Beck.
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2023 3.3 km
• Cottingley including Backfoot School on Wagon Lane, and Ash Grove and Aire View Avenue
  11 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 3.5 km
• Apperley Bridge including Apperley Road, Harrogate Road Parkin Lane and along Carr Beck 4.2 km
• Beckfoot including Beckfoot Lane near the confluence of Harden Beck and the River Aire
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 4.5 km
• Bingley including Harden Road at Ireland Bridge, Old Main Street, Queen Street and Myrtle Place
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2015 4.6 km
• Properties along Bradford Beck and tributaries including Bradford City Centre
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Oct 2023 4.9 km
• The area to the north west of Bingley extending from Bailey Hills at Waterside, Woodland Court and Longwood Avenue to Castlefields Industrial Estate
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 5.4 km
• Sports Pavilion, Crook Farm, properties off Coutances Way, Ilkley Road, Greenholme Trading Estate and Otley Road. Some properties near Wood Head Beck. The Sewage Works, Maple Bank Farm and some properties off Hag Farm Road
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2022 7.3 km
• River Aire from Stockbridge to Castleford, including Bradford Beck, Oulton Beck and Kippax Beck
  70 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 7.5 km
• Keighley and Stockbridge including Aireworth Road, Garforth Road and the Miniature Railway
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2015 8.2 km

Recorded floods near Baildon

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Baildon, most recent first. Absence of a record does not mean a place has never flooded. See them on the map →

• 20 Feb 2022 — 2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin Drainage
• 18 Jan 2021 — 2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph Drainage
• 15 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis Drainage
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara Main river
• 8 Feb 2020 — 2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara/Dennis Main river
• 7 Nov 2019 — 2019 November Flood Incident Main river
• 25 Dec 2015 — December 2015 Flood Event Main river
• 25 Jun 2007 — June 2007 Flood Event (Ridings Area) Main river
• 10 Feb 2002 — River Aire. Bingley Main river
• 10 Feb 2002 — River Aire. Apperley Bridge Main river
• 10 Feb 2002 — River Aire. Shipley Main river
• 31 Oct 2000 — 123 Autumn 2000 Main river

…and 3 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Baildon

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (4.5 km away), recorded 1.6 mm in the last 24 hours and 21.9 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 46 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Baildon

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Baildon that appears in the EA's rivers-and-sea dataset, worst band first. Each links to its own flood-risk page.

High likelihood (15)

Medium likelihood (7)

Low likelihood (6)

Postcode districts

Sources

FloodRadar summarises public flood data. It is not a flood-risk survey of any property, and it does not replace official GOV.UK flood warnings or the GOV.UK long-term flood risk service.