Hurricane Melissa-25 Building Damage Assessment in White House Village

White House Village in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica, is the focus of this damage assessment. The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) identified 1,875 affected buildings, with 715 destroyed and 1,160 damaged, using NOAA aerial imagery from 31 October 2025. This is a preliminary analysis produced by UNOSAT and has not been field-validated.

Use Cases

• Assess the scale of structural damage based on the count of destroyed and damaged buildings.
• Plan ground verification missions based on preliminary satellite-derived damage maps.
• Model disaster impact and allocate relief resources based on the geographic concentration of affected structures.
• Train machine learning models for automated building damage detection from aerial imagery.

Strengths

• Analysis is based on very high-resolution aerial imagery acquired by NOAA.
• Provides specific counts for affected (1,875), destroyed (715), and damaged (1,160) buildings.
• Data is provided in standard geospatial formats (SHP, GEODATABASE) for GIS analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The analysis is preliminary and explicitly noted as not yet validated in the field.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)

Collection Method

Damage identified using very high-resolution aerial imagery acquired by NOAA on 31 October 2025.

Time Range

As of 31 October 2025

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 04:49:43.475824

Geography

White House Village, Whitehouse District, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica