Signal Pakistan's 2025 monsoon floods on top of unfinished 2022 recovery

Summary

The floods that hit Pakistan from June to September 2025 left 1,037 confirmed deaths, 7 million people affected and 3 billion dollars in damage. Among the most damaging events the report lists for April 2025 to April 2026, they are one of the cases with large impacts in all three categories. An event-specific attribution study found that human-induced climate change raised their likelihood or intensity. Pakistan was still recovering from the 2022 floods, and the report explains that the new disaster strained recovery and adaptation efforts and pushed vulnerable communities into deeper hardship. In the report's view, repeated exposure to disasters is testing the adaptation limits of communities and infrastructure. It stresses that the damage falls disproportionately on marginalized and socio-economically disadvantaged people.