Italy floods and severe weather leave one dead and hundreds displaced
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 happenedFloods and severe weather across Italy crossed the monitoring threshold after GDACS event FL 1104053 reported a national aggregate of one death and 858 displaced people across multiple episodes from 26 July to 20 September 2026.
- How many affectedDisplaced persons: 858 · Deaths: 1 · GDACS national flood aggregate: 1 death and 858 displaced · multiple Italian flood episodes, 26 July–20 September 2026
- What help is neededResponse priorities should be confirmed in the linked source reports as needs change.
What changed
Updated verified snapshot
This record was first dated 2026-07-26 and last verified 2026-09-21.
Situation
Floods and severe weather across Italy crossed the monitoring threshold after GDACS event FL 1104053 reported a national aggregate of one death and 858 displaced people across multiple episodes from 26 July to 20 September 2026. That aggregate is not a denominator for one single incident. At event scope, a woman died after her car became trapped in a flooded underpass at Latisana on 10 September, while 45 people were evacuated from red-zone homes in Cataeggio after the monitored Scaiun landslide released debris above the settlement. Widespread disruption included flooded roads, rail interruptions and emergency responses across several regions. ANSA also reported a separate same-day death at Sinalunga, Tuscany, linked to a tornado; that fatality is retained as a scope-distinct severe-weather observation and is not added to the GDACS flood fatality total.
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. 8 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
- Displaced persons
- 858 retained at 2026-09-21
- Deaths
- 1 retained at 2026-09-21
- GDACS national flood aggregate
- 1 death and 858 displaced · multiple Italian flood episodes, 26 July–20 September 2026 retained at 2026-09-21
- Aggregate treatment
- National multi-episode total; not a single-incident denominator retained at 2026-09-21
- Latisana flood-linked death
- 1 person · flooded underpass · 10 September 2026 retained at 2026-09-21
- Cataeggio landslide evacuations
- 45 people from red-zone homes · 10 September 2026 retained at 2026-09-21
- Tuscany tornado death
- 1 separate death at Sinalunga · scope-distinct and not added to the GDACS flood total retained at 2026-09-21
- Transport disruption
- Flooded roads, rail interruptions and emergency responses reported across several regions retained at 2026-09-21
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- LATISANA FLOOD-LINKED DEATH · 45 EVACUATED IN CATAEGGIO · WIDESPREAD TRANSPORT DISRUPTION preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
- GDACS NATIONAL MULTI-EPISODE AGGREGATE · 1 DEAD · 858 DISPLACED preserved as a dated, source-linked observation. Source
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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