Overall Green alert Flood for Mozambique
in Mozambique

Flood impact summary

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

GDACS ID: 1100371
Deaths: 10
Displaced: 30384
Region: Sofala, Manica, Manica Province, Sussundenga
Countries: Mozambique
From - To 08 Feb - 18 Feb
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 08-02-2020

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 2 Mozambique Sofala, Sofala province
death 2 Mozambique Manica, Sussundenga
death 6 Mozambique Sofala, Manica, Sussundenga
missing 7 Mozambique Sofala
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
affected 71000 Mozambique Sofala
affected 3000 Mozambique Manica, Manica Province
displaced 14629 Mozambique Sofala, Sofala province
displaced - Mozambique Manica
displaced 15755 Mozambique Sofala

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2020-02-01 / 2020-02-25  

Saturday 01/02Sunday 02/02Monday 03/02Tuesday 04/02Wednesday 05/02Thursday 06/02Friday 07/02Saturday 08/02Sunday 09/02Monday 10/02Tuesday 11/02Wednesday 12/02Thursday 13/02Friday 14/02Saturday 15/02Sunday 16/02Monday 17/02Tuesday 18/02Wednesday 19/02Thursday 20/02Friday 21/02Saturday 22/02Sunday 23/02Monday 24/02Tuesday 25/02

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 and 15755 displaced 08 Feb 2020 08 Feb 2020 GLOFAS
2 6 deaths and 14629 displaced 08 Feb 2020 18 Feb 2020 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.