Indonesia, Flooding in Demak Regency, Central Java Province - JAN 2021
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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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 happenedChronology: Caused by high-intensity rainfall which resulted in the broken of the Kanana embankment at Kali Suntang on Friday, 1 Jan 2021, at 02.00 WIB Casualty: • 587 families / 1,651 people affected Material loss: • 587 housing units damaged • 155 Ha of rice fields Latest Condition: As of Friday, 1 Jan 2020, at 09:53 WIB, the flood still inundated.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 1,651
- 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
Chronology: Caused by high-intensity rainfall which resulted in the broken of the Kanana embankment at Kali Suntang on Friday, 1 Jan 2021, at 02.00 WIB Casualty: • 587 families / 1,651 people affected Material loss: • 587 housing units damaged • 155 Ha of rice fields Latest Condition: As of Friday, 1 Jan 2020, at 09:53 WIB, the flood still inundated. The number of affected people and material loss may still add up. Source: BPBD Kab. Demak Informed by: PUSDALOPS-PB BNPB Call Center Number: 117 (Toll-Free) Instagram: pusdalops_bnpb Twitter: @Bnpbpusdalops
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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. 1 human-impact figure was 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
- 1,651 retained at 2021-01-02
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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