Flood Check
Nairobi flood, 5 to 8 Mar 2026
Ruaraka: 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 Ruaraka: even the wettest tenth stayed dry. The wettest road, Thika Road, had up to 172 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
- 0 cm, dry
- Most of the area
- dry or nearly dry
- Land with 10 cm or more at the peak
- 9%, at Fri 6 Mar, 15:00
- Compared with Nairobi
- wetter than 2% of the 318 Nairobi areas here
Land with water, hour by hour
Share of the land within 700 m of the centre of Ruaraka with 10 cm of water or more (the line marks the peak).
Roads with the most water
- Thika Roadup to 172 cm, chest deep or more
What the press reported
- Thika Road, Githurai: Thika Superhighway flooded between Githurai and Kahawa Sukari.Kenyans.co.ke, 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 Ruaraka
- Allsops0 cm
- Babadogo0 cm
- Kariobangi North4 cm
- Mathare North4 cm
- Kiamaiko2 cm
- ngei6 cm