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 Feb 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:	103 days (at 10 Feb 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	15 Nov 2025 00:00	Medium impact for agricultural drought in 686103 km2	GDO

Affected Countries

Country
Egypt
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Palestina
Syria
Turkey

Affected ARU (Administrative Reporting Unit)

RDrI-Agri	Name	Country
- High	Gaza Strip	Palestina
- High	Israel	Israel
- High	Jordan	Jordan
- Medium	Lebanon	Lebanon
- High	West Bank	Palestina
- Medium	Anbar	Iraq
- Medium	Erbil	Iraq
- Medium	Dahuk	Iraq
- Medium	Ninewa	Iraq
- Medium	Salah al-Din	Iraq
- Medium	Jawf	Saudi Arabia
- Medium	Al_Qunaytirah	Syria
- Medium	Aleppo	Syria
- Medium	As_Suweida	Syria
- Medium	City_Damascus	Syria
- Medium	Damascus	Syria
- Medium	Dara	Syria
- Medium	Dayr_Az_Zor	Syria
- Medium	Hama	Syria
- Medium	Hassakeh	Syria
- Medium	Homs	Syria
- Medium	Idleb	Syria
- Medium	Lattakia	Syria
- Medium	Raqqa	Syria
- Medium	Tartous	Syria
- Medium	Adana	Turkey
- Medium	Adiyaman	Turkey
- Medium	Batman	Turkey
- Medium	Diyarbakir	Turkey
- Medium	Gaziantep	Turkey
- Medium	Hatay	Turkey
- Medium	K.maras	Turkey
- Low	Kayseri	Turkey
- Medium	Kilis	Turkey
- Medium	Malatya	Turkey
- Medium	Mardin	Turkey
- Medium	Osmaniye	Turkey
- Medium	Sanliurfa	Turkey
- Low	Sivas	Turkey
- High	North Sinai	Egypt

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