Does Haslingden flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 32 postcodes in Haslingden 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 326 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 Haslingden

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Haslingden watch Ogden Brook, River Irwell, Limey Water, Folly Clough, Whitewell Brook, River Hyndburn, River Darwen.

• Little Bridge
  Ogden Brook · 1.5 km away 0.05 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Irwell Vale
  River Irwell · 2.5 km away 0.36 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Rawtenstall
  Limey Water · 3.2 km away 0.15 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Stubbins
  River Irwell · 3.8 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Folly Clough Brook Structure
  Folly Clough · 4.3 km away 0.23 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 33 min ago
• Holt Mill Bridge
  River Irwell · 4.9 km away 0.18 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Thornfield Avenue
  Whitewell Brook · 5.3 km away 0.37 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Ramsbottom Weir Structure
  River Irwell · 5.5 km away 0.32 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 33 min ago
• Milnshaw
  River Hyndburn · 6.8 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Darwen Clough Street Overflow
  River Darwen · 8.2 km away 0.52 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Throstle Mill
  River Irwell · 8.7 km away 0.48 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Hardman Way
  River Darwen · 8.8 km away 0.07 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Haslingden'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 Haslingden

22 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Haslingden. The EA has issued 86 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 20 Sep 2025.

• Areas at risk include properties on Sunny Bank Close, Bridge End Close, Helmshore Road, Holecombe Road, Yarn Avenue and Cotton Way 1.2 km
• Areas at risk include Irwell Vale, Aitken Street, Bowker Street, Chapel Terrace, Hardsough Fold, Milne Street and Parkinson Fold
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 2.4 km
• Properties on and adjacent to Burnley Road; south of Constable Lee Bridge. Bocholt Way and Bacup Road from Bury Road to Lench Road. Properties near Hareholme mill, Victoria Works and Holme Lane including parts of New Hall Hey Road
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 3.0 km
• Areas at risk include properties adjacent to Limy Water from Brittania Mill to Mill Road. Including Stoneholme road, Crawshaw Grange and Burnley Road 3.3 km
• Areas at risk are those adjacent to the River Irwell through Strongstry and Chatterton. Including North St, Strongstry Bridge, Chatterton Rd. Other areas at risk include Areas in the vicinity of, Bolton Rd North, and Cuba industrial estate
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 4.2 km
• Areas at risk are properties along Burnley Road between Adelaide Street and Forest Bank Road. This includes Britannia Mill, Quakers Friend Meeting House and Mansion House Buildings, parts of Water Street and the Library on Adelaide Street.
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2020 4.2 km
• Areas at risk include properties adjacent to the A681 Bacup Road between Holt Mill Road and Spring Gardens Street. Also at risk, Victoria Parade, and parts of Schofield Street and Holt Mill Works
  6 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2024 5.1 km
• Properties adjacent to Brook including Globe, Dale, Gaghills, Mill End and Albion Mills. Waterfoot Business Centre. Properties on Burnley Road East, Rose, Booth and Clarke Holme Streets, the Close and Thornfield Avenue including the bakery
  9 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2025 5.5 km
• Areas at risk include properties along Burnley road between Riverside Park and Ashworth road. Also at risk are properties on Riverside Mews, Some property on Brock Clough Road and Shaw Clough Street.
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2024 5.5 km
• Areas at risk include properties on Riverbank Mews and along Love Clough Fold 5.6 km
• Areas at risk include the firestation, the treatment works, Great Eaves Rd and Athol street. Other areas at risk include Garden Street, Kenyon St, Nuttall Park and Ramsbottom Football and Cricket grounds
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Dec 2015 5.9 km
• River Hyndburn, Woodnook & Broad Oak Water, Antley Syke, Pleck, Hynburn, Tinker, Lottice and Whiteash Brooks in Accrington and Oswaldtwistle. Comprising Dunnyshop, Baxenden, Lower Fold, Peel Bank, Barnfield and Little Moor End
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2025 6.6 km

Recorded floods near Haslingden

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

• 5 Dec 2024 — Do Dahs Café Wine Bar,103-105 Bank St - Storm Darragh Drainage
• 23 Nov 2024 — Do dahs cafe - Storm Bert Drainage
• 23 Nov 2024 — 66 Burnley Road - Storm Bert  Drainage
• 23 Nov 2024 — Meadow - Storm Bert Sewer
• 23 Nov 2024 — North Street, Strongstry - Storm Bert Drainage
• 9 Feb 2020 — Fernlea Avenue
• 9 Feb 2020 — Meadow Park Main river
• 9 Feb 2020 — Crawshawbooth
• 9 Feb 2020 — Irwell Vale
• 9 Feb 2020 — Rawtenstall Ordinary watercourse
• 9 Feb 2020 — New Hall Hey, Rawtenstall Main river
• 9 Feb 2020 — Strongstry Drainage

…and 41 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Haslingden

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.4 km away), recorded 3.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 52.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Haslingden

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

High likelihood (17)

Medium likelihood (4)

Low likelihood (11)

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.