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Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is promising for flood detection. A number of change detection methods have been proposed to detect flooded areas with pre- and post-event SAR data. However, it remains difficult to detect flooded areas in built-up areas due to the complicated scattering of microwaves. To solve this issue, in this paper we propose the idea of analyzing the local changes in pre- and post-event SAR data as well as the larger-scale changes, which may improve accuracy for detecting floods in built-up areas. Therefore, we aimed at evaluating the effectiveness of multi-scale SAR analysis for flood detection in built-up areas using ALOS-2\/PALSAR-2 data. First, several features were determined by calculating standard deviation images, difference images, and correlation coefficient images with several sizes of kernels. Then, segmentation on both small and large scales was applied to the correlation coefficient image and calculated explanatory variables with the features at each segment. Finally, machine learning models were tested for their flood detection performance in built-up areas by comparing a small-scale approach and multi-scale approach. Ten-fold cross-validation was used to validate the model, showing that highest accuracy was offered by the AdaBoost model, which improved the F1 Score from 0.89 in the small-scale analysis to 0.98 in the multi-scale analysis. 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