Glasgow Flood Risk
Glasgow has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 1.7% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 5.9 km away.
Glasgow has 617,794 residents and 292,478 homes. Ranked 207 of 656 in Scotland for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Does Glasgow's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
The flood risk band for rivers and the sea is Low , with 1.7% of homes in a Medium or High band. Unlike the Flood Zone, the band counts the defences that are actually in place, which is why the two can describe the same street differently and both be right.
Flood Zone versus flood risk band: the full comparison · What the Flood Zones mean
Which Postcode Districts Cover Glasgow?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Glasgow. The band is the one shared by most of that district's postcodes, so it describes the district rather than a single street — enter a full postcode in the checker for one address. A district can cover more than one town, and the district pages linked from the checker are keyed to the town that holds most of its postcodes.
| Postcode district | Postcodes here | Rivers and sea band | Surface water addresses |
|---|---|---|---|
| G32 | 969 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G33 | 849 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G13 | 844 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G41 | 784 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G52 | 723 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G53 | 720 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G20 | 708 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G12 | 635 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G51 | 624 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G31 | 609 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G42 | 608 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G21 | 589 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G44 | 493 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G11 | 468 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G3 | 425 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G43 | 412 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G14 | 408 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G69 | 408 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G22 | 404 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G15 | 403 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G40 | 384 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G1 | 332 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G5 | 314 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G45 | 294 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G2 | 285 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G4 | 282 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G34 | 201 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G46 | 192 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G23 | 137 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G71 | 60 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G64 | 11 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G61 | 10 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| PA4 | 4 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| PA3 | 3 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G73 | 1 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
| G81 | 1 | Not mapped — no rivers-and-sea band covers this district | not published for this district |
"Not mapped" is not "no risk". It means no rivers-and-sea band covers that district in the source — surface water can still flood it, and both Camden and Islington flooded from surface water in July 2021 while carrying no mapped rivers-and-sea band.