Haiti: Post-Hurricane Matthew Snapshot HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT
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U.S. Department of State Unclassified [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov Haiti: Post-Hurricane Matthew Snapshot HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT Total rainfall Percentage of affected ATLANTIC OCEAN Hurricane Matthew, a Oct. 3 - 6, in inches buildings destroyed Category 4 storm with 5 to 9 5% or less sustained winds of 145 mph, 10 to 13 5.1% to 10% Port-de-Paix struck southwest Haiti on 14 to 18 Môle October 4, causing 10.1% to 50% Saint-Nicolas widespread damage. There 19 to 22 Cap Haïtien Greater than 22 50% or more have been 546 confirmed fatalities according to the Wind speeds Government of Haiti (GoH). 100-145 145-180 100-145 Gonaïves 75-100 mph mph mph 75-100 Preliminary assessments mph mph 40-75 mph indicate extensive losses, notably in agriculture and HAITI housing. According to UN Île de la OCHA, about 175,500 people Golfe Gonâve de la Gonâve remain displaced in 224 Anse à Galets emergency shelters, while Jérémie 72% Pointe à Raquettes more than 146,000 Abricots households were destroyed, Port-au-Prince Anse Dame-Marie DOM. heavily damaged, or flooded. Miragoåne d’Hainault Les Anglais 74% REP. Agricultural losses have left Les Irois Grand Goâve Port-à-Piment 88% an estimated 750,000 people in need of emergency food Chardonnière 79% Les Cayes 97% Jacmel and agriculture assistance, Coteaux 53% Côtes-de-Fer with the most extreme Port-Salut 82% damage affecting inhabitants 0 20 40 km Caribbean Sea of the Grand’Anse and the 0 20 40 mi Sud departments. The UN estimates 1,250,000 Estimated people in Roads people—including 500,000 need of aid by department Closed ATLANTIC OCEAN children—need safe water Fewer than 30,000 Restricted and sanitation to prevent the spread of diseases, 30,000 to 55,000 Accessible 55,001 to 160,000 Port-de-Paix particularly cholera. 160,001 to 350,000 Ports NORD-OUEST Non-operational 54,661 Cap Haïtien The GoH and others have More than 350,000 restored road access along Airfields Operational NORD 0 critical corridors in Non-operational Partially NORD-EST Grand’Anse and Sud, but Operational operational Gonaïves 0 certain areas along ARTIBONITE 34,550 secondary and tertiary roads Department International remain accessible only by boundary boundary HAITI boat or helicopter. Golfe Île de la CENTRE Gonâve 0 de la Gonâve People in need, by sector data as of October 17 1,250,000 Jérémie Port-au-Prince 1 million Jamaica DOM. GRAND’ANSE Miragoåne 750,000 Channel 374,641 OUEST REP. NIPPES 174,688 149,099 SUD 500,000 464,986 SUD-EST 158,150 175,000 Les Cayes Jacmel 116,000 0 20 40 km Education Shelter Food WASH* Caribbean Sea 0 20 40 mi *Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Names and boundary representation Sources: U.S. Department of Defense, ECHO, Netherlands Red Cross, are not necessarily authoritative University College of London, UN/OCHA, USAID/OFDA, WFP October 20, 2016 - U1469 STATE (HIU).