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 1103179
Death: 0
Displaced: 12006
Countries: Malaysia
From - To 19 Mar - 21 Mar

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Malaysia - Floods and landslides, update
  • 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.
Fri 21 Mar 2025Provided by ECHO Daily Flash
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),