Nepal floods and landslides leave more than 81,000 people affected
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 happenedExceptional rainfall on 27 and 28 September 2024 triggered severe flooding and landslides across Nepal.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 81,215 · Deaths: 246 · Children killed: 55
- What help is neededMore than 10,000 homes, 62 health facilities, over 240 schools, 550 water-supply systems and 9,000 sanitation facilities were damaged or destroyed.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Exceptional rainfall on 27 and 28 September 2024 triggered severe flooding and landslides across Nepal. By UNICEF's 18 October situation update, Government estimates recorded 81,215 people affected, including 27,613 children, with 246 deaths and 183 injuries. Fifty-five children were among those killed. More than 10,000 homes, 62 health facilities, over 240 schools, 550 water-supply systems and 9,000 sanitation facilities were damaged or destroyed. Blocked roads disrupted access to Kathmandu Valley and essential services. UNICEF and government partners had reached more than 20,000 people with humanitarian supplies and services, while health, WASH, education, nutrition and child-protection needs remained significant.
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 3 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 17 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
- 81,215 retained at 2024-10-18
- Deaths
- 246 retained at 2024-10-18
- Children killed
- 55 retained at 2024-10-18
- Girls killed
- 20 retained at 2024-10-18
- Boys killed
- 35 retained at 2024-10-18
- People injured
- 183 retained at 2024-10-18
- Houses damaged or destroyed
- >10,000 retained at 2024-10-18
- Health facilities damaged
- 62 retained at 2024-10-18
- Schools affected
- >240 retained at 2024-10-18
- Schoolchildren affected
- 31,876 reported; up to 47,500 estimated retained at 2024-10-18
- Water-supply systems affected
- 550 retained at 2024-10-18
- Sanitation facilities affected
- 9,000 retained at 2024-10-18
- People reached by UNICEF response
- >20,000 retained at 2024-10-18
- Psychosocial support recipients
- 5,487 retained at 2024-10-18
- Families receiving cash support
- 782 retained at 2024-10-18
- UNICEF initial requirement
- US$5.6 million retained at 2024-10-18
- Reported funding gap
- US$5 million retained at 2024-10-18
What we knew when
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- 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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Verified
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