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2018 Kerala floods
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Date July 2018 – ongoing
Location Kerala, India
Cause Low pressure
Heavy rain
Large discharge from dams
Landslides
Deaths 483 dead, 14 missing[1]
Property damage ₹19,500 crore (US$3 billion) (estimated)[2]
Website www.keralarescue.in
Death toll by date[3]
Date Death toll People
in relief camps
Aug 9 23 8,000
Aug 10 29 53,501
Aug 11 33 60,622
Aug 13 39 N/A
Aug 15 47 N/A
Aug 16 105 150,000
Aug 17 114 314,391
Aug 18 195 887,000
Aug 19 220 724,649
Aug 20 252 1,028,073
– – –
Aug 30 483 N/A
Monsoon rainfall that affected India from August 13 to 20, 2018
Red alert issued by India Meteorological Department (earlier in August)
Beginning in July 2018, severe floods affected the south Indian state of Kerala, due to unusually high rainfall during the monsoon season.[4] It was the worst flooding in Kerala in nearly a century.[5] Over 483 people died, 14 are missing.[6] At least a million[7][8] people were evacuated, mainly from Chengannur,[9] Pandanad,[10] Edanad, Aranmula, Kozhencherry, Ayiroor, Ranni, Pandalam, Kuttanad, Aluva, and Chalakudy. All 14 districts of the state were placed on red alert.[11][12] According to the Kerala government, one-sixth of the total population of Kerala had been directly affected by the floods and related incidents.[13] The Indian government had declared it a Level 3 Calamity, or "calamity of a severe nature".[14][15] It is the worst flood in Kerala after the great flood of 99 that happened in 1924.
Thirty-five out of the fifty-four[16] dams within the state were opened for the first time in history. All five overflow gates of the Idukki Dam were opened at the same time, for the first time in 26 years.[17] Heavy rains in Wayanad and Idukki have caused severe landslides and have left the hilly districts isolated.[18][13] The situation was regularly monitored by the Prime Minister, and the National Crisis Management Committee coordinated the rescue and relief operations.