Assam flood emergency leaves more than one million affected
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 happenedExceptionally heavy monsoon rain triggered widespread flooding in Assam from 19 July, with rainfall in parts of Upper Assam reaching far above seasonal norms.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 1,144,733 · Districts still affected: 8 · Villages still affected: 437
- What help is neededAlthough water levels later began to recede, an IFRC update said 1,144,733 people remained affected across eight districts and 437 villages, with continuing damage to agriculture, infrastructure and livelihoods.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
Exceptionally heavy monsoon rain triggered widespread flooding in Assam from 19 July, with rainfall in parts of Upper Assam reaching far above seasonal norms. The emergency peaked around 27–28 July when more than 800 villages were inundated. Although water levels later began to recede, an IFRC update said 1,144,733 people remained affected across eight districts and 437 villages, with continuing damage to agriculture, infrastructure and livelihoods.
WorldsAid verification
A WorldsAid editor reviewed this record against 2 attributed sources, cleaned feed formatting and checked the event, place and reporting date. 4 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
- 1,144,733 retained at 2026-07-19
- Districts still affected
- 8 retained at 2026-07-19
- Villages still affected
- 437 retained at 2026-07-19
- Villages inundated at peak
- 800+ retained at 2026-07-19
What we knew when
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- 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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