Flooding News
Malaysia’s National Disaster Management Agency (NADMA) report that flooding in two districts of Kedah state has displaced 441 people. The floods occurred on 18 July 2016 in the districts of…
China’s Yangtze River basin has seen another wave of heavy rain and floods since 16 July, affecting the 3 provinces of Jiangxi, Hubei and Hunan. Some areas of Hubei saw…
Floods hit villages in North Konawe regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Saturday 16 July 2016. The country’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) reported that at least 1,354 people have been…
Heavy rain and flash floods have been reported in several states in Sudan over the last week, causing several fatalities and destroying hundreds of homes. Many of the victims died…
Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has issued a warning of heavy rain over the next 72 hours that could result in flash floods and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) in the…
A State of Emergency was declared by the mayor of Huntington, West Virginia, after the city was hit by flash flooding after storms and heavy rain late on Thursday 14…
The cities of Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta, Canada, both experienced storms and periods of torrential rain yesterday, Friday 15 July, 2016, causing surface flooding and power outages. Just a…
Communities in Tasmania, Australia, have been hit by yet more flooding, this time in the town of Huonville after the Huon River overflowed. In early June, three people died in…
Continued heavy rain across parts of Myanmar since early July has brought further flooding and landslide to six regions or states. Rakhine state is the worst affected. Flooding and landslides…
Around 5,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes after heavy rain caused floods in Nicaragua and Guatemala. The heavy rain began to fall on 09 July, 2016. La…
Update, 15 July, 2016 In Wisconsin, the Ashland County Sheriff’s Department reported on 14 July that a man has died after his vehicle was dragged away by floodwaters of the…
Two more communities have declared a state of emergency after further heavy rainfall and flooding in Saskatchewan, Canada. The towns of Arborfield and Carrot River were both badly hit by…
At least 22 people have died in floods since 07 July in the central India state of Madhya Pradesh while Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted more rainfall to come…
The city of Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, declared a state of emergency on 11 July 2016 after a 3 hour torrential downpour caused damaging floods. In a statement, Mayor Roy Ludwig,…
Disaster authorities is the north east Indian state of Assam say that the flood situation which began on 04 July, 2016, has now affected over 123,000 people in 190 villages.…
Severe weather across the country has left over 200 people dead and almost 100,000 houses destroyed in China so far this month. The death toll from the ongoing Yangtze River…
