Overall Green alert Flood for Uganda
in Uganda

Flood impact summary

Flood Uganda is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100294
Deaths: 21
Displaced: -
Region: Buyende, Kampala
Countries: Uganda
From - To 07 Dec - 13 Dec
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.

Impact Assessement as of 13-12-2019

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 16 Uganda Bundibugyo, Bundibugyo District
death 5 Uganda Kampala
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses destroyed 30 Uganda Bundibugyo, Bundibugyo District
houses destroyed 30 Uganda Kirindi, Bundibugyo District
houses destroyed 250 Uganda Buyende

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-11-30 / 2019-12-20  

Saturday 30/11Sunday 01/12Monday 02/12Tuesday 03/12Wednesday 04/12Thursday 05/12Friday 06/12Saturday 07/12Sunday 08/12Monday 09/12Tuesday 10/12Wednesday 11/12Thursday 12/12Friday 13/12Saturday 14/12Sunday 15/12Monday 16/12Tuesday 17/12Wednesday 18/12Thursday 19/12Friday 20/12

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 16 deaths 07 Dec 2019 07 Dec 2019 GLOFAS
2 16 deaths 07 Dec 2019 07 Dec 2019 GLOFAS
3 5 deaths 13 Dec 2019 13 Dec 2019 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.