Overall Green alert Flood for Pakistan
in Pakistan

Flood impact summary

Flood Pakistan is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100588
Deaths: 97
Displaced: 8716
Region: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Swat District
Countries: Pakistan
From - To 20 Aug - 01 Sep
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.

Impact Assessement as of 01-09-2020

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 18 Pakistan Punjab
death 3 Pakistan Azad Kashmir
death 2 Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
death 6 Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
death 8 Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
death 27 Pakistan Karachi
death 33 Pakistan Swat District
SENDAI Indicator B N Country Location Info
displaced 8716 Pakistan Karachi
injured 38 Pakistan Swat District
SENDAI Indicator C N Country Location Info
houses destroyed 21 Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
houses destroyed 18 Pakistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
houses destroyed 30 Pakistan Swat District

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2020-08-13 / 2020-09-08  

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Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 18 deaths 20 Aug 2020 21 Aug 2020 GLOFAS
2 19 deaths 26 Aug 2020 31 Aug 2020 GLOFAS
3 27 deaths and 8716 displaced 22 Aug 2020 31 Aug 2020 GLOFAS
4 33 deaths 01 Sep 2020 01 Sep 2020 GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.