Flood Check
Nairobi flood, 5 to 8 Mar 2026
Matini: how deep did the water get?
In the Flood Check model of the Nairobi flood of 5 to 8 March 2026, the wettest tenth of Matini had 30 cm of water or more (shin deep), with the most water at Fri 6 Mar, 18:00. Most of the area stayed under 10 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
- 30 cm, shin deep
- Most of the area
- dry or nearly dry
- Land with 10 cm or more at the peak
- 16%, at Fri 6 Mar, 18:00
- Hours with 10 cm or more
- 71 hours, in the wettest tenth
- Compared with Nairobi
- wetter than 88% of the 318 Nairobi areas here
Land with water, hour by hour
Share of the land within 700 m of the centre of Matini 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.