Overall Orange alert Flood
in United States

Event summary

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

GDACS ID FL 1103339
Glide number: FL-2025-000106-USA
Death: 225
Displaced: 677
Countries: United States
From - To 15 Jun - 16 Jul

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USA - Floods (ECHO 12 Jul 2025)Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:07

  • Very heavy rainfall has been affecting the Texas state, southern USA since 4 July, causing floods and flash floods that have resulted in casualties and widespread damage.
  • Media report, as of 7 July, 82 fatalities, of whom 68 are across Kerr county, six in Travis county, three in Burnet county, two in Kendall county, two in Williamson county, and one more in Tom Green county, all in central Texas. In addition, media also report 41 missing people and 520 rescued people across all the aforementioned affected counties and Hill county. Moreover, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reports 30 damaged roads and 35 isolated locations across the affected area. The Governor of Texas declared a state of emergency.
  • Over the next 48 hours, more rainfall and thunderstorms are still forecast over most of Texas, except over western counties.
Northeastern USA, Mid-July 2025Storms with heavy rain caused flooding in areas of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania states, USA, in mid-July 2025.Tue 15 Jul 2025Provided by Copernicus EMS GloFAS
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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),