Liverpool Flood Risk

Rivers and the sea Low a 0.1% to 1% chance in any year

Surface water 35,649 addresses at risk that rivers and sea does not explain — a minimum, not a total

Groundwater Not mapped No national band is published for this source

Reservoirs Not mapped No national band is published for this source

Liverpool has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 0.6% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 7.1 km away.

Liverpool has 507,693 residents and 244,755 homes. Ranked 2265 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.

What Is The River Level Near Liverpool Right Now?

0.652 m within its typical range

Gauge: Winster Drive, Netherley
Distance: 7.1 km from the centre of Liverpool
Typical range: 0.219 m to 2.7 m
Reading taken: 20 Sept, 14:00 UTC

Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 2.92 m , reached on 23 July 2023.

All gauges on this river

What Does Liverpool's Flood Risk Classification Mean?

0.5% of postcodes in Liverpool sit in Flood Zone 3, the planning band for land with a 1% or greater annual chance of river flooding or 0.5% or greater of sea flooding — and the map that draws it deliberately ignores flood defences.

The flood risk band for rivers and the sea is Low , with 0.6% 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

Which Postcode Districts Cover Liverpool?

Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Liverpool. 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 districts covering Liverpool, with the flood risk band shared by most of each district's postcodes. A district can span more than one local area, so its band is a summary and not a property-level answer.
Postcode district	Postcodes here	Rivers and sea band	Surface water addresses
L25	831	Low	1,545
L4	788	Low	4,363
L8	684	Low	1,481
L9	582	Low	1,947
L12	572	Low	2,277
L13	546	Low	2,447
L11	536	Low	1,869
L18	526	Low	1,793
L3	517	Low	882
L6	498	Low	2,241
L19	475	Low	1,592
L15	460	Low	2,590
L7	446	Low	902
L17	442	Low	952
L1	437	Low	2,384
L5	428	Low	539
L14	338	High	1,559
L26	329	Low	968
L24	323	Low	1,182
L16	212	Low	389
L27	154	Low	775
L2	152	Low	487
L10	105	Low	185
L20	75	Low	123
L28	9	High	143
L36	3	High	23
L30	1	High	11

What Else Is Near Liverpool?

Other places on the Netherley Brook, nearest to Liverpool first.

Huyton with Roby flood risk 3.8 km away · Low for rivers and the sea

Netherley Brook levels Every gauge and live reading on this river
Flood risk in England How this nation classifies flood risk, and its gaps
What each flood risk level means The annual chance behind each band word