Suburban Area CLIMATE RISK
Kersal Dale sits inside the Salford council area, made up of residential streets and local-centre parades rather than its own town centre.
Kersal Dale inherits its flood band (Medium) from the wider Salford council area because the Environment Agency does not publish settlement-level breakdowns for every UK location. Search any postcode in Kersal Dale below for the address-level reading from Environment Agency NaFRA2.
Met Office UKCP18 projections estimate around 18 days above 25°C per year across the Salford area for the 2021-2040 period - the central scenario under high emissions; lower-emissions paths give lower numbers. Heat exposure within Kersal Dale itself is uneven: top-floor flats, west-facing terraces and properties without through-ventilation hold heat well into the night, while ground-floor homes near tree cover or open ground cool faster. The headline 18-day figure is an area average, not a property-level reading.
Annual mean PM2.5 across the Salford area is 7.5 µg/m³ - above the World Health Organisation guideline of 5 µg/m³ and within the UK Environment Act 2021 target of 10 µg/m³ by 2040. Within Kersal Dale, readings are not flat: postcodes within 200 metres of an A-road or major junction routinely run 30-50% higher during weekday rush hours than residential streets two roads back. Defra's UK-AIR network supplies the underlying figure.
Ground stability in Kersal Dale follows the underlying geology more than the postal boundary. The British Geological Survey GeoSure dataset maps clay shrink-swell risk on a 50-metre cell, and properties on the same street can sit in different bands where a clay seam ends mid-road. Pre-1980 housing on clay-rich ground is the most exposed; properties on bedrock or well-drained sandy soils are typically lower-risk. A postcode-level check picks up that variation.
A free postcode check on LocalRisk covers up to six hazards for any address in Kersal Dale: Environment Agency flood mapping, BGS ground stability, Met Office heat projections, Defra PM2.5, plus coastal erosion and green-space access where relevant. The postcode list below opens an address-level report for each postcode in Kersal Dale; the council link at the top of this page returns to the wider Salford picture.
Council area level (Salford). Search a postcode for detail.