Flood Check
Nairobi flood, 5 to 8 Mar 2026
Westlands: 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 Westlands: the wettest tenth had 2 cm or less. The wettest road, Riverside Close, had up to 144 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
- 2 cm, wet ground
- Most of the area
- dry or nearly dry
- Land with 10 cm or more at the peak
- 5%, at Fri 6 Mar, 04:00
- Compared with Nairobi
- wetter than 24% of the 318 Nairobi areas here
Land with water, hour by hour
Share of the land within 700 m of the centre of Westlands with 10 cm of water or more (the line marks the peak).
Roads with the most water
- Riverside Closeup to 144 cm, chest deep or more
- Riverside Garden Closeup to 66 cm, thigh deep
- Ring Road Westlandsup to 58 cm, knee deep
- Riverside Westlands Laneup to 58 cm, knee 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.
Areas near Westlands
- Luna Park/Mpaka Road0 cm
- St. Mark0 cm
- Karuna Close0 cm
- Groganville6 cm
- Chiromo12 cm
- Parklands0 cm