Cabo Verde — Natural Disaster Report
Africa · Live status: Elevated (1 active event)
Current situation: 1 natural disaster event is currently monitored in Cabo Verde, with a worst severity of Moderate. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Cabo Verde is a volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic where hazards are shaped by steep island terrain and ocean exposure. Pico do Fogo is an active volcano; its 2014 eruption destroyed the villages of Portela and Bangaeira inside the caldera. Intense rainfall on steep slopes produces flash floods and landslides, and prolonged drought is a chronic problem for agriculture on islands with almost no surface water. The islands lie in the Atlantic hurricane development region and are occasionally affected by early-season tropical systems.
Live map — Cabo Verde
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Active alerts & recent events
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Risk profile
Rainy season flash floods and landslides August-October. Drought as a persistent condition. Volcanic activity on Fogo. Tropical storm influence August-September. Coastal erosion and swell.
Disaster displacement in Cabo Verde
1,500 internal displacements
Largest single event: 1,500 from storm, beginning 11 August 2025.
A displacement is a movement, not a person: somebody forced from home more than once in a year is counted more than once. These are movements caused by disasters only — displacement caused by conflict is counted separately and is not included here.
| Hazard | Displacements in 2025 |
|---|---|
| Storm | 1,500 |
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Global Internal Displacement Database. IDMC publishes annually, so the latest year here is the latest they have finalised — not the current one.
What this site sees in Cabo Verde
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| NASA EONET | 1 | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | 1 | The Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific only. No typhoon in the western Pacific and no cyclone in the Indian Ocean or the southern hemisphere appears here; those come from GDACS and from national services. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | none | Global, but deliberately selective: it alerts on disasters likely to need INTERNATIONAL response. Serious local flooding that a national agency handles alone will not appear here. |
| US Geological Survey | none | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | none | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| NASA FIRMS | none | Global, but it sees only what the satellite saw on its pass, and thick cloud hides fire. A quiet day here is not evidence that nothing burned. |
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | none | Each warning comes from one country own alerting authority, so the scale is that agency scale and is not comparable between countries. Many agencies publish no coordinates, and those warnings are placed at the centre of the country rather than where the weather is - the area name is the real answer. |
| MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) | none | Europe only. It publishes no coordinates at all, so every warning here is placed at the centre of its country and the area name is the only reliable indication of where it applies. |
| NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers | none | These two centres warn for the US and Canadian coasts and for the Pacific and Caribbean basins. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean have their own warning centres, which are not read here. Their routine information statements - the ones that say there is NO tsunami danger - are deliberately not imported, so an empty tsunami list means no threat was issued, not that nothing was checked. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | none | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
Not applicable here: US National Weather Service — Covers the United States only. It publishes nothing about any other country, so its absence from a country page is not an outage. ; USGS Volcano Hazards Program — United States volcanoes only - Alaska, Hawaii, the Cascades, Yellowstone, California and the Northern Mariana Islands. It says nothing about Indonesia, Iceland, Italy or anywhere else, so its silence about a foreign eruption is not a judgement about that eruption.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Cabo Verde?
There are currently 1 monitored natural disaster events in Cabo Verde. The overall risk status is Elevated. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Cabo Verde face?
Cabo Verde is a volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic where hazards are shaped by steep island terrain and ocean exposure. Pico do Fogo is an active volcano; its 2014 eruption destroyed the villages of Portela and Bangaeira inside the caldera.
When is the main natural disaster season in Cabo Verde?
Rainy season flash floods and landslides August-October. Drought as a persistent condition. Volcanic activity on Fogo. Tropical storm influence August-September. Coastal erosion and swell. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Where does this disaster data for Cabo Verde come from?
Data is aggregated from official sources including USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, ReliefWeb and national agencies. Every event links to its original source, and update times are shown on each record.
Data sources: USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC, ReliefWeb (UN OCHA). See data sources & attribution and methodology. This page does not replace official emergency guidance.