Wakefield Flood Risk
Wakefield has a Low flood risk from rivers and the sea , with 1.9% of homes in a Medium or High band. The nearest gauge is 0.5 km away.
Wakefield has 97,294 residents and 44,636 homes. Ranked 1417 of 7,114 in England for rivers and sea flood risk.
What Is The River Level Near Wakefield Right Now?
Read from the Environment Agency flood-monitoring feed at 20 Sept, 14:34 UTC. The highest level on record here is 1.93 m , reached on 6 September 2008.
When Has Wakefield Flooded Before?
The Environment Agency holds 2 recorded flood outlines covering Wakefield, the most recent dated 26 June 2007.
Absence of a record is not evidence that a place has never flooded — the Environment Agency states that a lack of coverage does not mean an area has never flooded.
What Does Wakefield's Flood Risk Classification Mean?
4.7% of postcodes in Wakefield 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 1.9% 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.
Which Postcode Districts Cover Wakefield?
Each district below is one postcode district that falls inside Wakefield. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WF2 | 1,167 | Low | 2,361 |
| WF1 | 1,115 | Low | 2,858 |
| WF3 | 241 | Low | 448 |
| WF5 | 15 | Low | 16 |
| WF4 | 6 | Low | 8 |