Sri Lanka floods and mudslides close schools
Flood
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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In brief
- What happenedTorrential rain triggered flash floods and mudslides across Sri Lanka's central highlands on 4 August 2026.
- Reported impactAffected persons: 3,500 · Displaced persons: 3,500 · Deaths: 7
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Torrential rain triggered flash floods and mudslides across Sri Lanka's central highlands on 4 August 2026. Officials reported seven deaths, damage to 129 houses and the evacuation of nearly 3,500 people. Navy and army units were deployed to reach residents trapped by floodwater in the Nuwara Eliya and Badulla districts.
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WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 9 human-impact figures were separated from the narrative and dated where the source allowed. Earlier observations remain in the evidence history instead of being silently overwritten.
Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 3,500 retained at 2026-08-04
- Displaced persons
- 3,500 retained at 2026-08-04
- Deaths
- 7 retained at 2026-08-04
- Affected / evacuated persons
- 3,500 retained at 2026-08-04
- Displaced / evacuated persons
- 3,500 retained at 2026-08-04
- Injured
- Several; exact number not reported retained at 2026-08-04
- Affected families
- Not reported by source retained at 2026-08-04
- Refugees
- Not applicable retained at 2026-08-04
- Houses damaged
- 129 retained at 2026-08-04
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
Earlier figures are never replaced by later values; additional observations are retained as new ledger entries.
Provenance
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Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz
Verified
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