Two atmospheric rivers have battered the U.S. West Coast since January 31, 2025, bringing record rainfall to San Francisco and triggering landslides and flooding across California. At least one person was hospitalized.
Southern California saw its first significant rainfall in weeks on January 26, 2025, bringing much-needed relief from wildfires but also triggering flash floods and debris flows across Los Angeles County.
Heavy rainfall triggered severe flash floods and landslides in Central Java, Indonesia, on January 21, 2025, leaving at least 17 people dead and 8 missing.
A jade mining pond collapsed in Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar, engulfing more than 50 homes and claiming at least 12 lives on January 13, 2025. Over 100 people remain unaccounted for.
Extreme rainfall hit parts of Minas Gerais, Brazil late Saturday into Sunday, January 11 into 12, 2025, causing destructive landslides in which at least 10 people lost their lives. Most casualties were reported in Ipatinga where nearly 80 mm (3.1 inches) of rain fell in just one hour, causing widespread destruction.
2 men lost their lives in the early hours of Friday, December 27, 2024, after a mountainside collapsed in Clay County, Kentucky.
Landslides triggered by heavy rains on Wednesday night, November 27, 2024, in Uganda’s mountainous Bulambuli District buried at least 40 homes across six villages and claimed 13 lives. The death toll could potentially rise to 30, according to the Ugandan Red Cross Society.
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy torrential rains struck Indonesia’s island of Sumatra on Saturday, November 23, leaving at least 16 people dead, 18 injured and 6 missing.
A landslide in Purworejo Regency, Central Java, struck on Tuesday, November19, 2024, at approximately 16:00 local time (LT), killing three people, severely damaging one house, and leaving one person missing.
A landslide triggered by heavy rainfall struck the Cayeli district of Rize, Turkey, on November 19, 2024. The disaster buried the ground floors of two adjacent apartment buildings under debris, resulting in one fatality and three injuries.
