Flash floods deepen humanitarian needs across Afghanistan
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 happenedSuccessive flash floods and landslides affected a wide belt of eastern and central Afghanistan in July and early August.
- Reported impactDeaths: 31 · Reported injured: 11 · Reported missing: 77
- What help is neededHomes, schools, roads, bridges, water systems and farmland were damaged across multiple provinces.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Successive flash floods and landslides affected a wide belt of eastern and central Afghanistan in July and early August. Initial Red Crescent assessments recorded more than 910 affected families, 31 deaths, 11 injuries and 77 missing people. Homes, schools, roads, bridges, water systems and farmland were damaged across multiple provinces. A second flood in Barg-e-Matal district on 3 August affected another 191 families and further restricted access to safe water and essential services.
Linked charities and agencies
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 2 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the crisis, place and reporting date. 16 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
- Deaths
- 31 retained at 2026-07-20
- Reported injured
- 11 retained at 2026-07-20
- Reported missing
- 77 retained at 2026-07-20
- Homes damaged or destroyed
- 910 retained at 2026-07-20
- Families affected in initial assessment
- 910 retained at 2026-07-20
- Families affected in second flood
- 191 retained at 2026-07-20
- Livestock lost in initial assessment
- 330 retained at 2026-07-20
- WFP people assisted, July 2026
- 2.6 million retained at 2026-07-20
- WFP assistance recipients — male
- 51% retained at 2026-07-20
- WFP assistance recipients — female
- 49% retained at 2026-07-20
- WFP food distributed, July 2026
- 3,000 mt retained at 2026-07-20
- WFP cash transferred, July 2026
- USD 5.4 million retained at 2026-07-20
- WFP net funding requirements, Aug 2026–Jan 2027
- USD 502 million retained at 2026-07-20
- Flood-affected households receiving fortified biscuits
- 500 retained at 2026-07-20
- Additional households receiving two assistance rounds
- 500+ retained at 2026-07-20
- Provinces reporting increased wasting
- >75% retained at 2026-07-20
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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Cached dataset: worldsai_drup771.sql.gz
Verified
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