Saint Lucia - Flood Susceptibility Map - CHARIM

The national flood hazard map shows the potential flood hazard of all the catchments and locations on the island where flooding may take place. The information shown is flood extent only, water depth information is not included in this map. At this scale and resolution, water depth information is not accurate enough to make a hazard classification combining depth and extent. The flood extents relate to design rainfall events that have a return period of 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 and 1:50 years. The map is produced on a scale of 1:50,000 based on GIS raster data layers used in the flood model with a gridcell resolution of 20x20m. This effectively means that the map can only be used as an indication of where flood may occur, and be used to check which settlements and areas are exposed to floods. The infrastructure and buildings are deliberately shown in a generalized way, as is common with 1:50000 scale maps.