Sri Lanka Flood Impact on Population and Cropland, December 2025

Geospatial and socio-economic data from a flood event in Sri Lanka on December 1, 2025. The dataset includes an estimated impact on 258,648 people and 57,122 hectares of cropland. It was produced by the World Food Programme's Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system for humanitarian emergency response.

Use Cases

• Estimate immediate humanitarian needs based on the reported population affected.
• Model agricultural production loss based on the reported cropland area impacted.
• Map flood-affected zones for logistical planning using the provided geospatial (GEOTIFF) data.
• Conduct post-disaster damage assessment by analyzing the socio-economic information mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Quantifies impact with specific figures: 258,648 people and 57,122 hectares of cropland.
• Produced by an operational UN agency (WFP) system for disaster analysis.
• Available in structured (XLSX) and geospatial (GEOTIFF) formats for different analytical needs.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to a single, specific event.

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping (ADAM)

Collection Method

Collected, analyzed, and mapped by an automated system following a sudden-onset humanitarian emergency.

Time Range

Event date: December 1, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 22:10:35.246129; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sri Lanka