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Riverine and Flash Flooding

Flash floods and mudflows washed away villages near the Nepal-China border, killing over 150 people and leaving many missing.

Severity score

19.7

Limited · default weighting

Trajectory

Worsening

How this is ranked

What this is

Score breakdown

Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.

Loss of life

19

Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.

Lives negatively impacted

15

People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.

Financial cost

10

Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.

Environmental impact

12

Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.

Trajectory

64

Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.

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