Overall Green alert Flood for Turkey
in Türkiye

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID: 1100974
Deaths: 6
Displaced: 450
Region: Rize Province
Countries: Turkey
From - To 14 Jul - 23 Jul
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 16-07-2021

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 6 Türkiye Rize Province
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
affected 1 Türkiye Murgul/Artvin
displaced 450 Türkiye Arhavi
rescued 9 Türkiye Murgul/Artvin
rescued 6 Türkiye Arhavi

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2021-07-07 / 2021-07-30  

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 6 deaths 14 Jul 2021 16 Jul 2021 GLOFAS
2 0 deaths and 450 displaced 21 Jul 2021 23 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.