Eastern Ethiopia Flood Hazard Explorer

Climate scenario

Time period

Layer opacity · 85% Compare with current (swipe)

Susceptibility

Map layers

Woreda flood brief

High + Very High

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Click any woreda for a flood brief

Return period

Planning horizon · 3 years

Chance in horizon

12%

Estimate method

Expected daily rainfall

Station guidance

Rainfall hazard, not flood depth.

About this tool

Methods

Project team

Kalid Hassen Yasin^a RS & GIS lead and web developer Kalid.hassen@haramaya.edu.et

Beyan Ahmed Yuya^bPrincipal investigator

Freya Muir^c,dESA ECSAT / Future Earth

Sophie Hebden^cESA ECSAT

^a Geo-Information Science Program, Haramaya University, P.O. Box 138, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

^b Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness School, Haramaya University, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

^c ECSAT, European Space Agency, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0FD, UK

^d Future Earth Secretariat, 11418 Stockholm, Sweden

Project publications

1An Integrated ArcGIS Python Toolbox for SCS-CN-Based Flood Prediction in Data-Scarce Basins: Development, Validation, and Operational Application in Eastern Ethiopia

2Machine Learning and Sentinel-1 SAR Enable Flood Susceptibility Mapping Under Current and Future Climate Scenarios in Data-Scarce Eastern Ethiopia

3Frequency of extreme daily rainfall and near-term rainfall-driven flood hazard in the cities of eastern Ethiopia

Funding & credits

ESA-545-2025-03

Web developer: Kalid Hassen Yasin
Kalid.hassen@haramaya.edu.et

Rainfall data: National Meteorology Institute of Ethiopia.