Nairobi flood, 5 to 8 Mar 2026
Forty Jesus: how deep did the water get?
In the Flood Check model of the Nairobi flood of 5 to 8 March 2026, little water settled in Forty Jesus: the wettest tenth had 2 cm or less. The wettest road, Seniour Private ✭ Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka road, had up to 40 cm.
The model has no river channels: water that reaches a river valley stays there, so depths beside the Nairobi, Mathare and Ngong rivers are higher than the real water was. It has no blocked drains either. Check the exact street.
Open Forty Jesus on the 3D map
The numbers
- Wettest tenth of the area
- 2 cm, wet ground
- Most of the area
- dry or nearly dry
- Land with 10 cm or more at the peak
- 3%, at Fri 6 Mar, 01:00
- Compared with Nairobi
- wetter than 50% of the 318 Nairobi areas here
Land with water, hour by hour
Share of the land within 700 m of the centre of Forty Jesus with 10 cm of water or more (the line marks the peak).
Roads with the most water
- Seniour Private ✭ Hezekiah Rabala Ochuka roadup to 40 cm, knee deep
- field marshal ✵ john okello roadup to 28 cm, shin deep
What the press reported
- Kibra: Named among the flooded estates.Citizen Digital, 7 Mar
Renting or buying here?
Pin the exact address on the 3D map to see its depth for every hour of the flood. Water can sit on one street and miss the next, so check the address, not only the area. Ask neighbours how high the water got, and visit after heavy rain.
Areas near Forty Jesus
- Karanja Stage2 cm
- Ayany4 cm
- olympic12 cm
- Sarang'ombe12 cm
- Woodley2 cm
- Adam's Arcade0 cm