Hurricane Eta
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.
This is a rule-based WorldsAid triage indicator, not an official or independently validated classification. It does not account for recency or local context, and it can understate events with incomplete reporting. Check the linked sources.
Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedAccording to the United States’ National Hurricane Center (NHC), Eta is on track to make landfall over Nicaragua’s northeastern shores near their border with Honduras on late 2 November or early 3 November as a Category 1 or 2 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 km/h and high rainfall of up to 635mm to much of Nicaragua and Honduras.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 1,500 · Deaths: 200
- 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
According to the United States’ National Hurricane Center (NHC), Eta is on track to make landfall over Nicaragua’s northeastern shores near their border with Honduras on late 2 November or early 3 November as a Category 1 or 2 storm, bringing sustained winds of 150 km/h and high rainfall of up to 635mm to much of Nicaragua and Honduras. Eta’s projected path will take it over parts of Belize, El Salvador and Guatemala as well. Per the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), there are nearly 70,000 people in areas along Eta’s track through northern Nicaragua exposed to hurricane winds, 80 per cent of whom are in rural areas. Various cities along Honduras’ Caribbean coast are already reporting flooding. Nicaraguan response authorities are already providing families along the northern coasts with relief supplies and have evacuated more than 1,500 people. Honduran officials have declared a yellow alert for seven departments in central and eastern Honduras. El Salvador has placed all departments under yellow alert. ( OCHA, 2 Nov 2020 )
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 1 attributed source, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 2 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
- 1,500 retained at 2020-11-03
- Deaths
- 200 retained at 2020-11-03
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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Verified
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