Overall Green alert Flood
in United States of America

Event summary

This flood can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1000083
Death: 2
Displaced: 400
Countries: United States of America
From - To 26 Apr - 28 Apr

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 57 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

World: Caribbean Rolls Out Plans to Reduce Climate Change HazardsMon, 01 May 2017 18:12:00 +0200.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Apr 30 2017 (IPS) - Climate change remains inextricably linked to the challenges of disaster risk reduction (DRR). And according to the head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Robert Glasse
...(more)
Before the wall there were border fencing projects — and not al ... Mon, 01 May 2017 02:07:00 +0200.

SAN DIEGO — Competition to build President Donald Trump’s border wall is underway, with 467 companies nationwide submitting bids and designs to construct what was a centerpiece promise of Trump’s campaign. Fencing and barriers are nothing n
...(more)
Tornadoes leave trail of destruction in U.S.Mon, 01 May 2017 00:07:00 +0200.

CANTON, Texas — At least seven people have been killed by tornadoes or flooding in the South and Midwest United States by a storm that also dumped a rare late-season blizzard in western Kansas on Sunday. Tornadoes hit several small towns in
...(more)
Torrential rains, damaging winds lash U.S. midsectionSun, 30 Apr 2017 05:03:00 +0200.

By Alex Dobuzinskis. (Reuters) - Heavy rains and damaging winds struck a broad swath of the U.S. heartland on Saturday, causing power outages for thousands of Oklahoma residents while triggering road closures and flash flood warnings in par
...(more)

View more news

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), NASA (7), INFORM (1), (1),