Overall Orange alert Flood for Afghanistan
in Afghanistan

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID: 1101010
Deaths: 173
Displaced: -
Region: Kamdesh
Countries: Afghanistan
From - To 28 Jul - 31 Jul
Known identifiers for this event: FL-2021-000050-AFG

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 01-08-2021

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 60 Afghanistan Kamdesh
death 113 Afghanistan Kamdesh
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
affected 7 Afghanistan Kamdesh
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses 200 Afghanistan Kamdesh
houses damaged 206 Afghanistan Kamdesh

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2021-07-21 / 2021-08-07  

Wednesday 21/07Thursday 22/07Friday 23/07Saturday 24/07Sunday 25/07Monday 26/07Tuesday 27/07Wednesday 28/07Thursday 29/07Friday 30/07Saturday 31/07Sunday 01/08Monday 02/08Tuesday 03/08Wednesday 04/08Thursday 05/08Friday 06/08Saturday 07/08

Timeline of revisions

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

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 173 deaths 28 Jul 2021 31 Jul 2021 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.