How is the flood risk for Kekirawa worked out?

From the nearest river gauge ({gauge}, 31 km away), recent and expected rain, the gauge's forecast and any official warning. It is an estimate for the town, not an official warning, and streets can flood before the river reaches a flood mark.

Where does this come from and how often does it update?

River readings come from the Department of Irrigation's gauges, roughly once an hour, and this page checks for new ones every minute. This site is independent and not an official warning service: follow the Disaster Management Centre and call 117 in an emergency.

Is Kekirawa flooding?

Kekirawa, Anuradhapura

Kekirawa flood risk right now: Normal. This is an estimate from rain and official warnings, because no river gauge is close enough to use.

Flood estimate

Normal

Heavy rain: 102 mm in the last 24 hours

Next 24 hours

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Experimental estimate. There is no river gauge in Kekirawa.

Details

How this estimate works

· Starts from the river gauge's own level and forecast, the same as the gauge page.
· Heavy rain here (50 mm in 6 hours or 100 mm in 24 hours) raises it by one step, never more.
· Your own street level, if you set one, and official warnings can raise it further.
· It never says flooding is happening: only a measurement can show that.

Why

The nearest river gauge, Thambuththegama, has no recent reading
Heavy rain: 102 mm in the last 24 hours
Heavy rain here raises the risk by one step

Your river

Thambuththegama

Kala Oya · 31 km away

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Based on: Thambuththegama gauge on the Kala Oya, 31 km away

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Rain in Kekirawa

Heavy rain in the last 24 hours (102 mm). Little or no rain expected in the next 24 hours.

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Rain map

Did the streets near you get water today?

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River map

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Reservoirs upstream

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Official flood map

None of the Grama Niladhari divisions around Kekirawa is in the Irrigation Department's maps of past floods on the Kala Oya (2016). Low spots can still flood.

This shows where a past flood reached, not a flood now. A bigger flood can go further.

Flood maps: Irrigation Department of Sri Lanka

Flood help and phone numbers

Common questions

Is Kekirawa flooding now?: Kekirawa flood risk right now: Normal. This is an estimate from rain and official warnings, because no river gauge is close enough to use.
How is the flood risk for Kekirawa worked out?: From the nearest river gauge ({gauge}, 31 km away), recent and expected rain, the gauge's forecast and any official warning. It is an estimate for the town, not an official warning, and streets can flood before the river reaches a flood mark.
Where does this come from and how often does it update?: River readings come from the Department of Irrigation's gauges, roughly once an hour, and this page checks for new ones every minute. This site is independent and not an official warning service: follow the Disaster Management Centre and call 117 in an emergency.

Kala Oya · Sources: Department of Irrigation gauges, Open-Meteo rain, Disaster Management Centre warnings.