Viet Nam: Floods and Landslides - Oct 2022

Heavy rainfall has been affecting parts of Vietnam over the past few days, triggering landslides and leading to casualties and damage. According to the national authorities, at least 800 people in Thuong Hoa Commune (Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Province) have been affected by landslides as well as 30 households in Kyson District (Nghe An Province). (ECHO, 11 Oct 2022)

On 10-11 October in central Vietnam, floods, and landslides caused two missing people in Quang Ngai Province, while about 2,000 houses in the Province have been flooded. The flooding in Quang Ngai concentrated in Nghia Hanh and Duc Pho Districts, with an average flood level of 0.3 - 0.7m. More than 1,000 people have been reallocated to temporary shelters. (ECHO, 13 Oct 2022)

Vietnam Disaster Management Authority announced a warning on 23 September 2022 that tropical storm NORU would make landfall over middle Vietnam and moved towards Laos and Thailand. The typhoon hit Vietnam on 28th September and weakened to a tropical storm, while bringing severe rainfall successively to the region. During 19:00 on 27 September to 07:00 on 28 September, the Central and Central Highlands regions had heavy to severe rain at 200-300mm in some places [...] The event resulted in death of 2 people, injury to 62 people, collapse of 160 houses, damages to 3,364 houses and 7,346 houses became flooded across 12 provinces. Additionally, 874 ha of rice, 4,445 ha of crops, 3,0440 ha of aquatic product were flooded, 5,372 trees were fallen, 724 cattle, 20,292 poultry died and washed away.

On October 14, the tropical depression that formed in the North of Philippines strengthened into storm SONCA and entered the East Sea of Vietnam. The impact of the storm caused a sudden increase in the number of people affected as an additional 21,537 households were affected between 13-15 October. At the same time, the level of rainfall also reached the threshold of the Viet Nam Red Cross' Early Action Protocol for Floods. This is considered the trigger of the event and need for international assistance.

At dawn on October 15, the storm made landfall in Da Nang - Quang Nam with the wind measured at level 3-4, continued going inland and weakened into a low-pressure area and gradually dissipated. The storm created serious flood in Hue and Da Nang city, which reached 0.5-1.5m depth.

After successively storm surges since the end of September up to 18 October, there were 109,217 households (436,868 people) affected with 19 deaths, and 110 injuries, 89,451 inundated houses, 185 collapsed houses, 7,174 damaged houses. The impact of storm and flood is considered one of the worst since 2007. (IFRC, 24 Oct 2022)

Heavy rain has been affecting the central-eastern provinces of Vietnam, causing floods, triggering landslides and leading to casualties and damage. According to national authorities and media reports, three people died and almost 2,900 houses have been flooded in Thua Thien Hue Province (central Vietnam). Flooding occurred also in in Quang Nam Province (central Vietnam) where one house was completely destroyed and hectares of crops damaged. Furthermore, widespread landslides caused damage and blocked roads in the Provinces of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam. (ECHO, 6 Dec 2022)