Overall Green alert Flood
in Morocco

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1103668
Death: 58
Displaced: 150
Countries: Morocco
From - To 13 Dec - 16 Dec

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Morocco - Floods (ECHO 21 Dec 2025)Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:09

  • Very heavy rainfall has been affecting central-western Morocco, in particular the Safi province, Marrakesh-Safi region over the past 72 hours, causing floods and flash floods that have resulted in casualties and damage.
  • The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reports, as of 16 December, 37 fatalities, 32 injured people, around 150 displaced people and a total of approximately 300 affected people across the area of the coastal city of Safi. Significant damage to infrastructure was also reported by the same source.
  • Over the next 72 hours, moderate rainfall with locally heavy rainfall is forecast over central and northern Morocco.
Flood in Morocco - EC/ECHO daily mapWed, 17 Dec 2025 17:06

A new EC/ECHO daily map is now available
Morocco - Floods
  • Very heavy rainfall has been affecting central-western Morocco, in particular the Safi province, Marrakesh-Safi region over the past 72 hours, causing floods and flash floods that have resulted in casualties and damage.
  • The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reports, as of 16 December, 37 fatalities, 32 injured people, around 150 displaced people and a total of approximately 300 affected people across the area of the coastal city of Safi. Significant damage to infrastructure was also reported by the same source.
  • Over the next 72 hours, moderate rainfall with locally heavy rainfall is forecast over central and northern Morocco.
Tue 16 Dec 2025Provided by ECHO Daily Flash
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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2),