HAITI: Hurricane Irma – Humanitarian snapshot (as of 11 September 2017) Hurricane Irma, a category 5 hurricane hit Haiti on Thursday, September 7, 2017. On HAITI the night of the hurricane, 12,539 persons Injured people Bridge collapsed were evacuated to 81 shelters. To date, Capital: Port-au-Prince Severe flooding 6,494 persons remain in the 21 centers still Population: 10.9 M Damaged crops active. One life was lost and a person was recorded missing in the Centre Department Partially Flooded Communes while 17 people were injured in the Artibonite Damaged houses Injured people 6,494 Lachapelle departments of Nord, Nord-Ouest and Ouest. Damaged crops Grande Saline persons in River runoff or flooding of rivers caused Dessalines Injured people Saint-Marc 1 dead partial flooding in 22 communes in the temporary shelters Centre 1 missing person departments of Artibonite, Centre, Nord, Hinche Port de Paix out of 12,539 evacuated Cerca Cavajal Damaged crops Nord-Est, Nord-Ouest and Ouest. 4,903 Mole-St-Nicolas houses were flooded, 2,646 houses were Nord Limonade NORD-OUEST Cap-Haitien badly damaged, while 466 houses were Grande Rivière du Nord severely destroyed. Significant losses were Pilate Gros-Morne also recorded in the agricultural sector in the Nord-Est Bombardopolis Ouanaminthe Ouanaminthe (severe) NORD departments of Centre, Nord-Est and Fort-Liberté Gonaive Nord-Ouest. Caracol NORD-EST Ferrier Terrier-Rouge 21 The Haitian Government, with the support of Trou-du-Nord ARTIBONITE humanitarian partners, is already responding Nord-Ouest active Hinche in the relevant departments to help the Anse-à-Foleur Port-de-Paix affected population. temporary shelters Ouest CENTRE Arcahaie out of 81 opened Cabaret Ganthier Tabarre Thomazeau Port-au-Prince GRANDE'ANSE OUEST 22 NIPPES 8,015 communes in SUD SUD-EST houses affected 6 departments including 2,646 partially badly flooded damaged The boundaries and names shown and the designations used on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Creation date:11 September 2017 www.unocha.org www.reliefweb.int Sources: Hydrometeorological Unit of Haiti (UHM), Institut Haitien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI), Direction de la Protection Civile (DPC).