Mozambique Flooding Road Blockages for Maputo and South Sofala

A 2026 assessment of primary, secondary, and tertiary roads for blockages due to flooding or debris in Maputo and South Sofala, Mozambique. The data was created by the Planetary Response Network and is available in shapefile format with a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on June 30, 2026.

Use Cases

• Identify impassable routes for emergency response based on road blockage assessments.
• Analyze flood impact on transportation infrastructure based on road classification (primary, secondary, tertiary).
• Plan logistics and aid delivery routes based on geospatial data of road conditions.
• Integrate with other disaster datasets for comprehensive flood impact modeling based on the described geographic scope.

Strengths

• Data is georeferenced using the WGS 84 EPSG:4326 projection, a standard for interoperability.
• Explicitly covers three classes of road infrastructure (primary, secondary, tertiary) for detailed analysis.
• Associated with a documented crowdsourcing project (Planetary Response Network Mozambique Flooding 2026) on Zooniverse.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Planetary Response Network

Collection Method

Assessed via the Planetary Response Network project, likely involving satellite imagery analysis and/or crowdsourced mapping.

Time Range

2026 (associated with a specific flooding event)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-30 16:30:46.144640; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maputo and South Sofala, Mozambique