Flood Check

Nairobi flood, 5 to 8 Mar 2026

Horse Shoe: 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 Horse Shoe: even the wettest tenth stayed dry.

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 Horse Shoe on the 3D map

The numbers

Wettest tenth of the area
0 cm, dry
Most of the area
dry or nearly dry
Compared with Nairobi
wetter than 16% of the 318 Nairobi areas here

Land with water, hour by hour

Thu 5 MarFri 6 MarSat 7 MarSun 8 Mar

Share of the land within 700 m of the centre of Horse Shoe with 10 cm of water or more (the line marks the peak).

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 Horse Shoe