Sudan — Natural Disaster Report
Africa · Live status: High (23 active events)
Current situation: 23 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Sudan, with a worst severity of Severe. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Sudan faces severe flooding along the Nile and its tributaries each rainy season, with the 2020 floods among the worst in a century, damaging tens of thousands of homes and archaeological sites. The same country simultaneously experiences drought and desertification across its northern and western regions, where the Sahara continues to advance and pastoral livelihoods are under pressure. Dust storms, known as haboobs, sweep across Khartoum and central Sudan. Ongoing conflict has collapsed much of the health and emergency infrastructure, magnifying the humanitarian consequences of every hazard.
Live map — Sudan
Loading live data… · Marker positions are approximate; severity is labelled in each popup. Sources: USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC.
Active alerts & recent events
Latest earthquakes
Near a particular city? Earthquake history near a place · disasters reported near a place · compare Sudan's earthquake record with another country.
By hazard in Sudan
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
Risk profile
Nile and flash flooding July-September. Drought and desertification in the north and Darfur. Haboob dust storms May-August. Extreme heat April-June. Conflict severely limiting response capacity.
Disaster displacement in Sudan
30,175 internal displacements
Largest single event: 6,000 from flood, beginning 30 September 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 | 30,025 |
| Mass Movement | 150 |
| Year | Displacements |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 30,175 |
| 2024 | 199,946 |
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 — Sudan
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: 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: 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: 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 →
What this site sees in Sudan
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| NASA FIRMS | 64 | 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) | 2 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| 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. |
| 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.
Satellite before and after — Sudan
- Sudan 2020: the Nile in flood at Khartoum · NASA images from 20 Jul 2020 and 5 Sep 2020
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Sudan?
There are currently 23 monitored natural disaster events in Sudan. The overall risk status is High. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Sudan face?
Sudan faces severe flooding along the Nile and its tributaries each rainy season, with the 2020 floods among the worst in a century, damaging tens of thousands of homes and archaeological sites. The same country simultaneously experiences drought and desertification across its northern and western regions, where the Sahara continues to advance and pastoral livelihoods are under pressure.
When is the main natural disaster season in Sudan?
Nile and flash flooding July-September. Drought and desertification in the north and Darfur. Haboob dust storms May-August. Extreme heat April-June. Conflict severely limiting response capacity. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Where does this disaster data for Sudan 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.