Overall Orange alert Drought for Eastern Europe-2023
in Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Event summary

The drought has lasted for 6 months. Drought indicators suggest anomalies typical of mild to severe events.

GDACS ID DR 1016401
Name: Eastern Europe-2023
Glide number: DR-2023-000138-AUT
Countries: Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Start Date: End of Jul 2023
Duration: 371 days
Impact: Medium impact for agricultural drought in 363571 km2
More info: Global Drought Observatory

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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 60 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Atmosphere, Vol. 15, Pages 888: Drought Dynamics and Drought Hazard As ... 2024-07-25T15:18+0200.

Awareness of the potential threat posed by drought necessitates the implementation of appropriate procedures to enable effective and systematic actions aimed at mitigating, or at least partially limiting, the impacts of drought events. This
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Japan supports WHO’s work to improve health services and emergency res ... 2024-07-24T19:58+0200.

Japan supports WHO’s work to improve health services and emergency response. 24 July 2024. The Government of Japan’s support to WHO has enabled the Western Pacific Region and other countries across the globe to carry out much-needed health
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Estero In Bulgaria è emergenza incendi, boschi ridotti in cenere2024-07-20T13:33+0200.

In Bulgaria è emergenza incendi a seguito della siccità e del caldo torrido con temperature che da due settimane oscillano a ridosso dei 40 gradi centigradi. Gli incendi interessano soprattutto la Bulgaria sud-est che confina con la Grecia
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Agricultural Producers Join Wildfire Fight2024-07-18T15:14+0200.

Following a request of caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, agricultural producers from the Bulgarian Farmers' Union (BFU) have joined the fight against the wildfires that rage across Bulgaria, providing machinery and equipment, the B
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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Analytical report

06/Dec/2023 14:19 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Analytical report

14/Jul/2023 13:47 UTC

GDO analytical report imported in GDACS update automatic procedure

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: (2), EC-JRC (36), WMO (1), INFORM (2),