A WorldsAid scan of GDACS on 19 September 2026 retained six lower-impact alerts for monitoring rather than elevating them to dominant operations. Flood alerts in Spain, Thailand and Italy were classified Green; their latest GDACS snapshots reported two deaths and 15 displaced people in Spain, two deaths and 169 displaced people in Thailand, and one death…
GDACS GREEN · LOWER-IMPACT EVENTS UNDER MONITORING
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…
GDACS GREEN · NATIONAL MULTI-EPISODE AGGREGATE · 1 DEAD · 858 DISPLACED
A long-running drought has left a broad belt of Europe under an Orange GDACS alert after months of pressure on farmland and water supplies. The event began on 21 December 2025 and its latest assessment covers 29 countries, from Ireland and Spain across central and eastern Europe to Ukraine and Russia. GDACS estimates that medium agricultural-drought…
Staggering amounts of rain fell in northern Italy on 04 October 2021, causing floods and landslides in Liguria and Piedmont Regions. Liguria’s environment agency reported a record 181 mm of rainfall in just 1 hour and over 900 mm in 24 hours. Severe weather was reported across northern and central areas of Italy on 04
During the morning of July 24, the area near the town of Bonarcado in the province of Oristano, in Sardinia, was affected by large fires that spread very quickly due to several factors including strong southerly winds, high temperatures and vegetation prone to fire. The fires affected farms, crops and houses and led to
Lampedusa immigrant reception center , officially Reception Center (CDA) of Lampedusa , has been operating since 1998, when the Italian island of Lampedusa became a primary European entry point for immigrants from Africa.[1] It is one of a number of Centri di Accoglienza (CDA) maintained by the Italian government. The