Mexico floods: GDACS aggregate records 8 deaths and 125 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 happenedGDACS classifies the Mexico flood record as Green / low humanitarian impact and reports 8 deaths and 125 displaced across a multi-episode period from 17 August to 28 September 2026.
- How many affectedDisplaced persons: 125 · Deaths: 8 · GDACS classification: Green · low humanitarian impact
- 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 2026-08-17 and last verified 2026-09-28.
Situation
GDACS classifies the Mexico flood record as Green / low humanitarian impact and reports 8 deaths and 125 displaced across a multi-episode period from 17 August to 28 September 2026. The late-September aggregate includes several distinct local flood episodes; GDACS notes late-September flooding in Sinaloa. These are national multi-episode totals and are not a single-incident count. The record is separate from Hurricane Polo and from Polo-linked coastal flooding in Michoacán; no figures are combined across them.
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 2 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the event, 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
- 125 retained at 2026-09-28
- Deaths
- 8 retained at 2026-09-28
- GDACS classification
- Green · low humanitarian impact retained at 2026-09-28
- Reported deaths
- 8 · national multi-episode summary retained at 2026-09-28
- Displaced
- 125 · national multi-episode summary retained at 2026-09-28
- Event period
- 17 August–28 September 2026 retained at 2026-09-28
- Latest episode note
- GDACS notes late-September flooding in Sinaloa; no separate casualty/displacement count stated in the summary retained at 2026-09-28
- Scope note
- National multi-episode aggregate; keep separate from Hurricane Polo and Polo-linked Michoacán flood observations retained at 2026-09-28
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- GDACS Green national multi-episode flood summary: 8 deaths and 125 displaced, 17 August–28 September; latest episode note includes Sinaloa flooding. 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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