Overall Orange Flood in Spain from 27 Oct 2024 15:00 UTC to 30 Oct 2024 01:00 UTC

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Overall Orange Flood

in Spain

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID:	1102983
Deaths:	285
Displaced:	587
Region:	Valencian Community, Cullera, Letur, Mira, Valencia region, Alfafar, Ribarroja del Turia
Countries:	Spain
From - To	27 Oct - 04 Nov
Known identifiers for this event:	FL-2024-000199-ESP

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 30-10-2024

SENDAI Indicator A	N	Country	Location
death	1	Spain	Letur
death	1	Spain	Mira
death	62	Spain	Valencia region
death	3	Spain	Castile-La Mancha
death	217	Spain	Valencian Community
death	1	Spain	Andalusia
missing	114	Spain	Valencian Community
missing	5	Spain	Letur

SENDAI Indicator B	N	Country	Location
displaced	40	Spain	Letur
displaced	100	Spain	Alfafar
displaced	447	Spain	Valencian Community
rescued	26	Spain	Cullera

SENDAI Indicator C	N	Country	Location	Info
houses damaged	4500	Spain	Valencian Community

SENDAI Indicator D	N	Country	Location	Info
bridges destroyed	1	Spain	Ribarroja del Turia

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS

Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2024-10-20 / 2024-11-11

Timeline of revisions

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

ID	Level	Population affected	Start Date	End Date	Source
1		221 deaths and 447 displaced	27 Oct 2024	30 Oct 2024	GLOFAS
2		64 deaths and 140 displaced	28 Oct 2024	30 Oct 2024	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.

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