Overall Orange alert Flood
in Democratic Republic of the Congo

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID: 1101787
Deaths: 120
Displaced: -
Region: Matadi, Kinshasa
Countries: Democratic Republic of Congo
From - To 13 Dec - 14 Dec
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.

Impact Assessement as of 14-12-2022

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 120 Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa
SENDAI Indicator D N Country Location Info
roads 1 Democratic Republic of Congo Matadi, Kinshasa

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2022-12-06 / 2022-12-22  

Tuesday 06/12Wednesday 07/12Thursday 08/12Friday 09/12Saturday 10/12Sunday 11/12Monday 12/12Tuesday 13/12Wednesday 14/12Thursday 15/12Friday 16/12Saturday 17/12Sunday 18/12Monday 19/12Tuesday 20/12Wednesday 21/12Thursday 22/12

Timeline of revisions

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

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 120 deaths 13 Dec 2022 14 Dec 2022 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.