2010 China floods

2010 China Floods

Flooding along the Gan River in Zhangshu, Jiangxi
Date	10 May – September 2010
Location	28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the People's Republic of China; North Korea
Deaths	3,189+ dead, at least 1,056 missing
Property damage	51.4 billion USD

The 2010 China floods began in early May 2010. 392 people had died, and a further 232 people had been reported missing as of June 30, 2010, including 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou. 53 of the deaths occurred from the flooding and landslides between May 31 and June 3, and 266 deaths occurred between June 13 and June 29. 424 people were killed by the end of June, including 42 from the Guizhou landslide; 277 more were killed and 147 left missing in the first two weeks of July, bringing the death toll as of August 5 to 1,072. A landslide in early August in Gansu killed at least 1,471 people and left 294 missing. In total, the flooding and landslides killed at least 3,185 people in China by August 31. More than 230 million people in 28 provinces, municipalities and regions, especially the southern and central provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing Municipality, Gansu, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the northeastern province of Jilin have been affected, while at least 4.66 million people have been evacuated because of the risk of flooding and landslides in the latter half of June. By early August, over 12 million people had been evacuated, and that number rose to 15.2 million by August 31.

Millions lack drinking water. A total of 1.36 million houses have been destroyed and more than 97,200 square kilometres (37,500 sq mi) of crops had been inundated, while 8,000 km² (3,100 sq mi) of farmland had been completely destroyed by the end of June. Dozens of rivers remain in flood, including the Pearl River in Guangdong province, which was impacted by severe drought during the spring as its outflow was severely reduced. The total damages from the floods were roughly 83.8 billion yuan as of June 27, 2010, and over 275 billion yuan (41 billion USD) by August 8. By late August, 16.5 million hectares of farmland have been affected by the flooding, while 2.09 million hectares have been completely destroyed.