Overall Orange alert Flood for Myanmar
in Myanmar

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID: 1100104
Deaths: 0
Displaced: 17000
Region: Kachin, Rakhine, Sagaing, Kachin State, Rakhine state
Countries: Myanmar
From - To 14 Jul - 14 Jul
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 14-07-2019

SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
displaced 14000 Myanmar Kachin State
displaced 3000 Myanmar Rakhine state

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2019-07-07 / 2019-08-13  

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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 0 deaths and 17000 displaced 14 Jul 2019 14 Jul 2019 GLOFAS
2 0 deaths and 78000 displaced 15 Jul 2019 07 Aug 2019 GLOFAS
3 53 deaths and 36700 displaced 06 Aug 2019 06 Aug 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.