Pakistan — Natural Disaster Report
Asia · Live status: Elevated (14 active events)
Current situation: 14 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Pakistan, with a worst severity of Moderate. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Pakistan sits where the Indian and Eurasian plates collide, which raised the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush and makes the north one of the most seismically active regions on Earth. The 2005 Kashmir earthquake near Muzaffarabad killed an estimated 87,000 people and destroyed thousands of schools. Almost the whole country drains into a single river system, the Indus, so an intense monsoon arriving on top of Himalayan glacial melt overloads one basin at once: the 2010 superflood submerged roughly a fifth of the country, and the 2022 floods affected around 33 million people. The southern coast of Sindh and Balochistan faces Arabian Sea cyclones, and inland Sindh and southern Punjab record some of the highest temperatures on the planet, with Jacobabad repeatedly exceeding 50°C. Northern valleys face a growing hazard from glacial lake outburst floods as glaciers retreat.
Live map — Pakistan
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Active alerts & recent events
Latest earthquakes
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By hazard in Pakistan
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
- Avalanches in Pakistan
- Earthquakes in Pakistan
- Floods in Pakistan
- Heatwaves in Pakistan
- Hurricanes in Pakistan
- Wildfires in Pakistan
Risk profile
Monsoon flooding July-September, peaking in Sindh weeks after rain falls in the north. Arabian Sea cyclones May-June and October-November. Extreme heat April-June. Earthquakes possible year-round along the northern fault systems. Glacial lake outburst floods during summer melt in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral.
Official emergency authorities
In season now in Pakistan
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Arabian Sea cyclones (post-monsoon)
— October to November
The second window, after the monsoon withdraws.
Seasons describe when a hazard is historically most likely, averaged over many years. They are not a forecast and say nothing about this week.
Hazard seasons
| Season | Months | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Monsoon | July to September | The season in which both the 2010 and 2022 floods began. |
| Pre-monsoon heat | May to June | Peaks in the south and in Punjab before the monsoon breaks. |
| Arabian Sea cyclones (pre-monsoon) | May to June | One of two windows. Cyclones are rare here but reach the Sindh and Balochistan coasts. |
| Arabian Sea cyclones (post-monsoon) · now | October to November | The second window, after the monsoon withdraws. |
| Northern snow and avalanche season | December to March | Gilgit-Baltistan and upper Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This season crosses the new year. |
Disaster displacement in Pakistan
3.0 million internal displacements
Largest single event: 2.8 million from flood, beginning 23 July 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 |
|---|---|
| Flood | 3,044,719 |
| Earthquake | 14 |
| Storm | 7 |
| Year | Displacements |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,044,740 |
| 2024 | 169,016 |
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.
River flood forecast — Pakistan
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: in 2 days (on 2026-10-21) · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: as currently ongoing · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: in 7 days (on 2026-10-26) · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: in 4 days (on 2026-10-23) · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
No chance of exceeding even its 2-year flood flow in this forecast.
GloFAS alert level: Inactive · Peak expected: as currently ongoing · forecast of 19 Oct 2026
GloFAS forecasts are computer model output, published for information only. They are not a flood warning: only national and regional authorities issue flood warnings for their own area. A reporting point is a place on the model's river network, which may sit a few kilometres from the town it is named after. All 259 rivers →
Emergency numbers — Pakistan
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15 — Police
Nationwide. Published by Islamabad, Punjab, Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police. -
1122 — Rescue 1122 — ambulance, fire and rescue
Operated by the Punjab Emergency Service. Other provinces have adopted the number, but the service named on the official site is Punjab's. -
115 — Edhi Foundation ambulance
A charity, not a government service, and the largest ambulance network in Pakistan. Published by the Edhi Foundation itself.
Last checked 4 September 2026. Numbers change and some are provincial rather than national. If one does not connect, use the authorities listed above.
What this site sees in Pakistan
The Pakistan Meteorological Department issues its own warnings for Pakistan. This site does not ingest them, so a PMD warning will not appear on this page. For flooding, what reaches this site comes from GDACS, which alerts on disasters likely to need international response — serious local flooding handled nationally will not be here. Earthquakes are well covered, because USGS and EMSC are global.
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| NASA FIRMS | 28 | 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. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | 5 | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | 2 | 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 | 1 | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | 1 | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| 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. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | none | 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. |
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.
Major historical disasters — Pakistan
| Event | Type | Date | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 Pakistan Floods | Flood | Jun 14, 2022 | 1,739 |
| 2010 Pakistan Floods | Flood | Jul 28, 2010 | 1,985 |
| 2005 Kashmir Earthquake | Earthquake | Oct 8, 2005 | 87,351 |
Satellite before and after — Pakistan
- 2022 Pakistan floods: the Indus plain in Sindh · NASA images from 8 Aug 2022 and 31 Aug 2022
- 2010 Pakistan floods: the Indus around Sukkur and Jacobabad · NASA images from 18 Jul 2010 and 24 Aug 2010
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Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Pakistan?
There are currently 14 monitored natural disaster events in Pakistan. The overall risk status is Elevated. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Pakistan face?
Pakistan sits where the Indian and Eurasian plates collide, which raised the Himalaya, Karakoram and Hindu Kush and makes the north one of the most seismically active regions on Earth. The 2005 Kashmir earthquake near Muzaffarabad killed an estimated 87,000 people and destroyed thousands of schools.
When is the main natural disaster season in Pakistan?
Monsoon flooding July-September, peaking in Sindh weeks after rain falls in the north. Arabian Sea cyclones May-June and October-November. Extreme heat April-June. Earthquakes possible year-round along the northern fault systems. Glacial lake outburst floods during summer melt in Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Pakistan?
Official warnings for Pakistan are issued by National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and Pakistan Meteorological Department. Links to each are on this page. This site aggregates and reports; it does not issue warnings, and in an emergency the national agency is the authority.
What is the deadliest recorded natural disaster in Pakistan?
Of the events documented on this site, the deadliest in Pakistan is the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake (2005), with around 87,351 deaths. Official Pakistan figure; estimates range 73,000–87,000+. This is drawn from documented records held here and is not a complete historical archive.
Where does this disaster data for Pakistan 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.