Overall Green alert Flood for United States
in United States

Event summary

Flood United States can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1100411
Death: 0
Displaced: 10
Countries: United States
From - To 27 Mar - 31 Mar

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Ohio, USA, March 2020Heavy rain caused rivers to rise in northeastern Ohio, USA, on 28 March, with flooding reported in parts of Cleveland and the suburbs of Parma and Seven Hills.Fri 27 Mar 2020FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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: 28 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

World: SERVIR produces maps to support efforts against locust outbreak ... Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:43:00 +0200.

SERVIR, a joint program between NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has partnered with relief organizations and the United Nations, to produce maps that could explain locust behavior. The maps provide useful info
...(more)
Why Don’t We Know Who the Coronavirus Victims Are?Wed, 01 Apr 2020 19:27:00 +0200.

By April 1927, the Mississippi River’s rapidly rising waters burst levees in Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, inundating 26,000 square miles of land. Cash-crop production in the nation’s most prosperous agricultural
...(more)
United States: Commercial Insureds' Claims Under All-Risk Policies ... Sat, 28 Mar 2020 06:05:00 +0100.

Do flood exclusions and flood sublimits bar or reduce coverage? With climate change comes extreme weather, which has led to catastrophic losses by insured businesses. Two such catastrophic weather events are Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Su
...(more)
New York hospitals battle coronavirus as hundreds of patients flood in ... Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:27:00 +0100.

The top surgeon of a major New York City hospital dealing with a flood of hundreds of patients infected with the coronavirus rallied his staff with a letter that compared the pandemic to a typhoon, and urged them to stand strong in its face
...(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), (2), NASA (7), WMO (1), INFORM (2),