Deadly Flash Floods in Luanda, Angola
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 happenedSevere flash floods triggered by heavy rain affected areas of Luanda Province, Angola from 16 March 2021.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 1,770 · Deaths: 4
- What help is neededNational Civil Protection and Fire Service quoted by local media said at least 4 people died and 3 people were missing.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Severe flash floods triggered by heavy rain affected areas of Luanda Province, Angola from 16 March 2021. National Civil Protection and Fire Service quoted by local media said at least 4 people died and 3 people were missing. Flood waters swept through central parts of the city causing widespread traffic disruption. As many as 554 homes were damaged in districts surrounding the city, including Viana, Cacuaco, Talatona and Belas. Authorities said 1,770 residents have been affected. Figures show the city recorded around 100 mm of rain in 24 hours to early 17 March 2021. Media said much of that total fell during a 3 hour period on 16 March. Last week heavy rainfall caused flooding in Malanje Province where 1 person died and more than 150 houses were damaged or destroyed.
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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. 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
- 1,770 retained at 2021-03-22
- Deaths
- 4 retained at 2021-03-22
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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