Map source

The online map of flood and debris flow disasters in Yunnan Province in early July 2014 is from the Atlas of natural disasters in China in 2014, the book is edited by the National Disaster Reduction Commission Office, the Disaster relief Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Disaster Reduction Center of Ministry of Civil Affairs, and is published by China Map Publishing House. The scale of this map is 1:60000000.

Online map of flood and debris flow disasters in Yunnan Province in early July 2014

This flood and debris flow disaster has the following characteristics:

1.Various disaster spots and scattered disaster areas

The disaster process is mainly caused by short-term heavy rainfall, the number of disaster areas is large, but the distribution is relatively scattered. 31 counties were scattered in 13 cities (autonomous prefectures), accounting for 81.3% of the total number of prefecture level administrative regions in the province.

2.Frequent geological disasters and serious casualties

Due to the short duration and high intensity of rainfall, many secondary geological disasters such as landslides and debris flows occurred continuously in the northern mountainous area of Yunnan Province, causing serious casualties. According to statistics, the number of people who died and disappeared due to secondary geological disasters accounted for more than 90% of the total number of people who died and disappeared in the process of the flood disaster. Among them, 17 people died and 14 people were missing in Fugong County of Nujiang Prefecture and Yunlong County of Dali Prefecture on July 9.

3.The combination of disaster and poverty is prominent, which makes it difficult for disaster relief and reconstruction

In the process of the disaster, nearly 80% of the affected counties belong to the national poverty alleviation and development.

The per capita net income of more than 90% of the affected counties is lower than the average level of the whole province. Local financial difficulties, weak self-help capacity, and the complex terrain of the disaster stricken areas, inconvenient transportation, material transfer and turnover difficulties, disaster relief and reconstruction work is more difficult.