Overall Green alert Flood
in Malaysia

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1103130
Death: 0
Displaced: 1249
Countries: Malaysia
From - To 18 Feb - 08 Mar

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Malaysia - Floods (ECHO 05 Mar 2025)Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:52

  • Heavy rainfall has been affecting the Malaysian part of the Borneo Island since 26 February, causing floods that have resulted in evacuations and damage.
  • As of 28 February, the ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet) reports a total of 397 evacuated people. 340 of them are located across five evacuation centres in the Telupis district, and 57 are in two evacuation centres in the Paitan district, both in the Sabah state.
  • Over the next 96 hours, more heavy rainfall is forecast over most of eastern Malaysia.
Malaysia - Floods and landslides (ECHO 25 Mar 2025)Thu, 20 Mar 2025 11:46

  • Heavy rainfall has been affecting Peninsular Malaysia (particularly the southernmost Johor state) over the last 24 hours, causing floods, flash floods, and triggering landslides that have resulted in population evacuations and damage.
  • Media report, as of 20 March, nearly 900 evacuated people across Johor state, where the worst affected cities are Johor Bahru (with 567 evacuated people), Kulai, and Pontian.
  • Over the next 72 hours, very heavy rainfall is still forecast over the whole of Peninsular Malaysia, including the already affected Johor state.
Malaysia - Floods and landslides, update (ECHO 26 Mar 2025)Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:17

  • Heavy rainfall continued to affect Peninsular Malaysia, particularly the southernmost Johor state and eastern Malaysia, the Sabah and Sarawak states in the Malaysian part of Borneo Island since 19 March, causing floods and flash floods and triggering landslides that have resulted in more evacuated populations and damage.
  • The ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet) reports, as of 21 March, more than 11,000 evacuated people across the Johor state (with 9,646 evacuated people), the Sabah state (1,237 evacuated people), and the Sarawak state (188 evacuated people).  Several people were evacuated across 99 evacuation centres.  The worst affected cities are Johor Bahru, Kulai, and Pontian in the Johor state.
  • Over the next 48 hours, very heavy rainfall is still forecast over the whole country.
Peninsular Malaysia, early March 2025ADINet reported flooding in areas of Peninsular Malaysia following heavy rain in early March 2025.Fri 7 Mar 2025Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (37), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),