Flood Check
Nairobi flood, 5 to 8 Mar 2026
Kyuna: 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 Kyuna: the wettest tenth had 4 cm or less. The wettest road, Loresho Ridge, had up to 120 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.
The numbers
- Wettest tenth of the area
- 4 cm, wet ground
- Most of the area
- dry or nearly dry
- Land with 10 cm or more at the peak
- 7%, at Fri 6 Mar, 03:00
- Compared with Nairobi
- wetter than 61% of the 318 Nairobi areas here
Land with water, hour by hour
Share of the land within 700 m of the centre of Kyuna with 10 cm of water or more (the line marks the peak).
Roads with the most water
- Loresho Ridgeup to 120 cm, chest deep or more
- Lower Kabete Roadup to 106 cm, waist deep
- Waiyaki Red Hill Link Roadup to 98 cm, waist deep
- Westlands Link Roadup to 98 cm, waist deep
- Kyuna Closeup to 40 cm, knee deep
- Spring Valley Roadup to 20 cm, shin deep
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.