Buying land, renting or building? Click any spot on our live map and FloodSpots tells you if it has flooded recently, floods every year, or has no recorded flood history - built from media reports, resident accounts and community tips.
Pulsing circles are flood hotspots; blue lines are the rivers and storm drains the water follows. Hit Check any location's flood risk on the map, then click anywhere - including a plot you're considering - for an instant flood-risk read.
Every rainy season, families discover too late that their new home sits in a flood path. FloodSpots puts years of flood records and the drainage network on one map so you can vet a neighbourhood in seconds - free.
Click a card to jump to it on the map. Community reports come from residents like you; media-sourced ones from published reporting. Members see event dates and full source links on the dashboard.
Ghana Ground Up is Ghana's prime real estate podcast. Week after week, we sit with the people buying, building and renting in this country - and week after week, the same story finds us: someone put everything they had into a plot, and the first big rain told them what nobody else would.
Somewhere along the way, putting out good information stopped feeling like enough. If we want to see a Ghana where no family loses their savings to a flood plain they were never warned about, then we have to be part of building it - not just talking about it. So we built FloodSpots.
We can't tell you how far this goes. We're a podcast, not a hazard agency, and this map is the beginning of something rather than the finish of it. But it's live, it's free, and it's ours to grow - and we're genuinely excited to put our shoulder to it. This is our share of the difference.
Flooding in your street that isn't on this map? Sign up free, drop a pin, and after a quick review it joins the record - tagged as a community report, helping neighbours and future home buyers alike.
Locations are compiled from public news reporting (AP, JoyNews, B&FT, Modern Ghana and others), on-record resident interviews, and community tips reviewed by a moderator before they appear - each tagged by origin.
Rivers, canals and storm drains - including the Odaw River and Densu basin - are drawn from OpenStreetMap. When it rains, these are the channels the water follows; hotspots cluster along them.
We're focused on Greater Accra today and built to go national - every report is region-tagged, so new regions light up as reports and data arrive.
Guidance, not survey-grade. This map is built from public/media sources and community tips - not NADMO hazard surveys or ground-truthed water levels. Absence of reports is not proof of safety. Confirm on the ground before making a six-figure decision off this.
This is version one of something we intend to keep building. If a page confused you, a feature is missing, something is plainly broken, or a flood spot we've mapped doesn't match what you know on the ground - we want to hear it. Blunt is fine. Blunt is useful.
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