Some roads in the municipality are covered with water and traffic is affected. Municipality centre Ivalo has been foreced to evacuate people from the hospital and elderly people's homes situated next to the river Ivalojoki. Some residental areas are not accessible, and also the road to the airport was cut off for some time. People have been safeguarding their homes with sandbags, and authorities are alert and helping people, offering them boat rides to cross the river and recommending them to leave their homes if the water still keeps rising.

A residental area in Ivalo is completely cut off by flood water