Overall Orange Drought alert for Middle East, Central Asia-2024 in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Israel, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan from 21 Oct 2024 00:00 UTC to 10 Aug 2025 00:00 UTC

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Overall Orange alert Drought for Middle East, Central Asia-2024

in Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Israel, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan

Event summary

Mild to severe impacts to people and to one or more sectors of the economy.

Name:	Middle East, Central Asia-2024
Countries:	Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, China, Israel, Iraq, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Uzbekistan
Start Date:	End of Oct 2024
Duration:	284 days (at 10 Aug 2025)
Impact:	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 686103 km2
More info:	Global Drought Observatory

GDACS Score

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Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

As of 2025-03-01, this event integrated the drought event Iran, Turkmenistan-2025.
In the 2025-03-11 ten-day period this event integrated the part of the drought event Turkiye-2023 located in central Turkiye
As of 2025-06-01, this event integrated the drought event Central Asia-2025.

Episode Timeline

ID	Score	Date	Description impact	Source
1	0.5	10 Jan 2025 00:00	Minor impact for agricultural drought in 147626 km2	GDO
2	0.5	20 Jan 2025 00:00	Minor impact for agricultural drought in 147626 km2	GDO
3	0.75	30 Jan 2025 00:00	Minor impact for agricultural drought in 188253 km2	GDO
4	1	10 Feb 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 319192 km2	GDO
5	1.25	20 Feb 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 370840 km2	GDO
6	1.25	02 Mar 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 359075 km2	GDO
7	1.25	10 Mar 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1026497 km2	GDO
8	1.25	20 Mar 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1270791 km2	GDO
9	1.25	30 Mar 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1066548 km2	GDO
10	1.25	10 Apr 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1322276 km2	GDO
11	1.25	20 Apr 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1347089 km2	GDO
12	1.25	30 Apr 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 884485 km2	GDO
13	1.25	10 May 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 893758 km2	GDO
14	1.25	20 May 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 903572 km2	GDO
15	1.25	30 May 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 678423 km2	GDO
16	1.25	10 Jun 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1607534 km2	GDO
17	1.25	20 Jun 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1610919 km2	GDO
18	1.25	30 Jun 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1218283 km2	GDO
19	1.25	10 Jul 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1430093 km2	GDO
20	1.25	20 Jul 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1468985 km2	GDO
21	1.25	30 Jul 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 821562 km2	GDO
22	1.25	10 Aug 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1099121 km2	GDO
23	1.25	20 Aug 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 1281491 km2	GDO
24	1.25	30 Aug 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 383622 km2	GDO
25	1.25	10 Sep 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 628505 km2	GDO
26	1.25	20 Sep 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 700989 km2	GDO
27	1.25	30 Sep 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 338968 km2	GDO
28	1.25	10 Oct 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 475473 km2	GDO
29	1	16 Nov 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 686103 km2	GDO

Affected Countries

Country
Afghanistan
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Iran
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Lebanon
Pakistan
Syria
Tajikistan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan

Affected ARU (Administrative Reporting Unit)

RDrI-Agri	Name	Country
- High	Afghanistan	Afghanistan
- High	Kyrgyzstan	Kyrgyzstan
- Medium	Lebanon	Lebanon
- High	Tajikistan	Tajikistan
- Low	Esfahan	Iran
- High	Khorasan	Iran
- Low	Markazi	Iran
- Medium	Mazandaran	Iran
- High	Semnan	Iran
- Low	Tehran	Iran
- Low	Yazd	Iran
- Low	Kirkuk	Iraq
- Low	Diyala	Iraq
- Medium	Ninewa	Iraq
- Low	Salah al-Din	Iraq
- Low	Sulaymaniyah	Iraq
- High	Almatinskaya	Kazakhstan
- High	Jambylslkaya	Kazakhstan
- Medium	Kyzylordinskaya	Kazakhstan
- Low	Mangistauskaya	Kazakhstan
- High	Yujno-kazachstanskaya	Kazakhstan
- Low	Federally Administered Tribal Areas	Pakistan
- High	North-West Frontier	Pakistan
- Medium	Aleppo	Syria
- Medium	Damascus	Syria
- Medium	Dayr_Az_Zor	Syria
- Medium	Hama	Syria
- Medium	Hassakeh	Syria
- Medium	Homs	Syria
- Medium	Idleb	Syria
- Medium	Raqqa	Syria
- Medium	Tartous	Syria
- Medium	Adana	Turkey
- Medium	Adiyaman	Turkey
- Medium	Gaziantep	Turkey
- Medium	Hatay	Turkey
- Medium	Icel	Turkey
- Medium	K.maras	Turkey
- Medium	Kilis	Turkey
- Medium	Malatya	Turkey
- Medium	Osmaniye	Turkey
- Medium	Sanliurfa	Turkey
- Medium	Chardzhou	Turkmenistan
- Medium	Mary	Turkmenistan
- Medium	Tashauz	Turkmenistan
- High	Bukhara	Uzbekistan
- Low	Karakalpakstan	Uzbekistan
- Medium	Kashkadarya	Uzbekistan
- High	Namangan	Uzbekistan
- Medium	Samarkand	Uzbekistan
- High	Surkhandarya	Uzbekistan
- Medium	Sirdarya	Uzbekistan
- High	Tashkent	Uzbekistan
- High	Golestan	Iran
- Low	Ghom	Iran
- Medium	Almaty City area	Kazakhstan
- High	Jizzakh	Uzbekistan
- High	Navoiy	Uzbekistan
- Medium	Tashkent city	Uzbekistan
- Low	Jammu and Kashmir	India
- High	Balkan	Turkmenistan
- High	Ahal	Turkmenistan
- Medium	Armenia	Armenia
- High	Azerbaijan	Azerbaijan
- High	East Azarbayejan	Iran
- High	West Azarbayejan	Iran

More information

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