{
 "title": "Kerala Landslide Ledger",
 "publisher": "Nayaneethi Policy Collective",
 "licence": "CC BY 4.0",
 "checked_to": "2026-10-02",
 "scope": "Landslide events in Kerala since 2016 that killed at least one person. Deaths include missing persons officially declared dead.",
 "severity_tiers": [
  {
   "name": "Fatal",
   "deaths": "1–4"
  },
  {
   "name": "Serious",
   "deaths": "5–19"
  },
  {
   "name": "Major",
   "deaths": "20–99"
  },
  {
   "name": "Catastrophic",
   "deaths": "100+"
  }
 ],
 "events": [
  {
   "id": "karinchola-2018",
   "date": "2018-06-14",
   "place": "Karinchola, Kattippara",
   "district": "Kozhikode",
   "lat": 11.43,
   "lon": 75.93,
   "deaths": 14,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Early-monsoon debris flow; slope cut for a water-storage tank cited as a contributing cause.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Springer, Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering vol. 274",
   "url": "https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-4055-2_41",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "adimali-2018",
   "date": "2018-08-09",
   "place": "Adimali",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 10.012,
   "lon": 76.952,
   "deaths": 5,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Five of one family killed when their house was buried; the head of the household escaped.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Deccan Chronicle, 10 Aug 2018",
   "url": "https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/100818/five-of-family-among-9-dead-in-idukki-landslide.html",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "keerithodu-2018",
   "date": "2018-08-09",
   "place": "Keerithodu, Kanjikuzhy (Periyar valley)",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 9.938,
   "lon": 76.962,
   "deaths": 4,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Rented house caved in. Two more people were reported missing at the time and are not counted here until a final figure is found. The report names the place as Keerikkal, Periyar valley; placed at Keerithodu, the surveyed slide site in Kanjikuzhy village.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "Deccan Chronicle, 10 Aug 2018",
   "url": "https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/100818/five-of-family-among-9-dead-in-idukki-landslide.html",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "kuranchery-2018",
   "date": "2018-08-16",
   "place": "Kuranchery, near Mulankunnathukavu",
   "district": "Thrissur",
   "lat": 10.6,
   "lon": 76.235,
   "deaths": 19,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Part of a hill on the Machad range came down around 6.45 am and washed away four houses. Three-day rescue.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Deccan Chronicle, 28 Aug 2018",
   "url": "https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/current-affairs/280818/kuranchery-still-in-state-of-shock.html",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "nemmara-2018",
   "date": "2018-08-16",
   "place": "Cherunkad, Athanad (Nemmara)",
   "district": "Palakkad",
   "lat": 10.585,
   "lon": 76.62,
   "deaths": 7,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Seven confirmed dead and four missing on the day; three houses washed away. Later accounts put the toll at about 10. Lower, confirmed figure used until a final official count is found.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "Onmanorama, 16 Aug 2018",
   "url": "https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2018/08/16/palakakd-nemmara-landslide-rain.html",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "kavalappara-2019",
   "date": "2019-08-08",
   "place": "Kavalappara (Muthappan Hill), Pothukal",
   "district": "Malappuram",
   "lat": 11.385,
   "lon": 76.255,
   "deaths": 59,
   "missing": 11,
   "notes": "Counted as 59 presumed dead, including 11 never recovered.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Onmanorama, 30 Jul 2024",
   "url": "https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2024/07/30/wayanad-landslides-heaviest-loss-witnessed-kerala-july-august.html",
   "severity": "Major"
  },
  {
   "id": "puthumala-2019",
   "date": "2019-08-08",
   "place": "Puthumala, Meppadi",
   "district": "Wayanad",
   "lat": 11.505,
   "lon": 76.15,
   "deaths": 17,
   "missing": 5,
   "notes": "Counted as 17 dead, including 5 never recovered. 53 houses, a mosque, a temple and a shop buried.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Onmanorama, 30 Jul 2024",
   "url": "https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2024/07/30/wayanad-landslides-heaviest-loss-witnessed-kerala-july-august.html",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "vilangad-2019",
   "date": "2019-08-08",
   "place": "Alimoola, Vilangad",
   "district": "Kozhikode",
   "lat": 11.735,
   "lon": 75.8,
   "deaths": 4,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Same night as Kavalappara and Puthumala.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Onmanorama, 11 Aug 2019",
   "url": "https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2019/08/11/vilangad-landslide-rescue-kerala-rains.html",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "kottakkunnu-2019",
   "date": "2019-08-09",
   "place": "Kottakkunnu, Malappuram town",
   "district": "Malappuram",
   "lat": 11.045,
   "lon": 76.075,
   "deaths": 3,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Mudslide caught on CCTV; a woman, her daughter-in-law and an infant grandson were buried. Bodies of the mother and child were recovered first; the third recovery is not yet confirmed in our sources.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "The News Minute, Aug 2019",
   "url": "https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bodies-woman-and-child-trapped-malappuram-mudslide-recovered-107046",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "pettimudi-2020",
   "date": "2020-08-06",
   "place": "Pettimudi, Rajamala (Munnar)",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 10.161,
   "lon": 77.011,
   "deaths": 70,
   "missing": 4,
   "notes": "66 bodies recovered, 4 never found. Plantation workers' line houses buried. 28-day search.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Onmanorama, 6 Aug 2024",
   "url": "https://www.onmanorama.com/news/kerala/2024/08/06/four-years-of-pettimudi-landslide.html",
   "severity": "Major"
  },
  {
   "id": "kokkayar-2021",
   "date": "2021-10-16",
   "place": "Mackochi, Kokkayar",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 9.585,
   "lon": 76.905,
   "deaths": 7,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "KSDMA's official event report gives 7 dead, 5 of them children. Early press counts were 5 or 6.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "KSDMA event report, October 2021",
   "url": "https://sdma.kerala.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Event-report_October-2021.pdf",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "koottickal-2021",
   "date": "2021-10-16",
   "place": "Kavali & Plappally, Koottickal",
   "district": "Kottayam",
   "lat": 9.565,
   "lon": 76.875,
   "deaths": 13,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Two slides in one panchayat during an October low-pressure spell, not the monsoon. KSDMA confirms all 13 missing were recovered dead; it logged 23 slides in Kanjirappally taluk that day.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "KSDMA event report, October 2021",
   "url": "https://sdma.kerala.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Event-report_October-2021.pdf",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "nedumpuramchal-2022",
   "date": "2022-08-01",
   "place": "Nedumpuramchal, Kanichar",
   "district": "Kannur",
   "lat": 11.885,
   "lon": 75.835,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "One man killed and his father missing under debris on the day. A two-year-old was also swept away in floodwater during the evacuation; that death is not counted as a landslide death here.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "The News Minute, 2 Aug 2022",
   "url": "https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/landslides-kannur-heavy-rains-lash-kerala-two-year-old-washed-away-166428",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "kudayathoor-2022",
   "date": "2022-08-29",
   "place": "Maliyekkal Colony, Kudayathoor",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 9.835,
   "lon": 76.8,
   "deaths": 5,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Five members of one family; shallow slide after a few hours of extreme rain.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "The News Minute, 29 Aug 2022",
   "url": "https://www.thenewsminute.com/kerala/five-family-die-after-heavy-rains-trigger-landslide-kerala-s-thodupuzha-167312",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "vilangad-2024",
   "date": "2024-07-30",
   "place": "Vilangad, Vanimal",
   "district": "Kozhikode",
   "lat": 11.725,
   "lon": 75.79,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Same night as Wayanad. 13 houses destroyed; low toll because residents had moved.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Deccan Herald, Aug 2024",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/india/kerala/survivors-of-another-devastating-landslide-in-kerala-plead-for-rehabilitation-3148891",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "wayanad-2024",
   "date": "2024-07-30",
   "place": "Mundakkai, Chooralmala, Punchirimattam",
   "district": "Wayanad",
   "lat": 11.47,
   "lon": 76.135,
   "deaths": 298,
   "missing": 32,
   "notes": "Official toll reported to Parliament, including 32 missing declared dead. Other counts run higher because 223 body parts were recovered separately (estimates up to ~420).",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Madhyamam, citing MHA reply in Parliament",
   "url": "https://madhyamamonline.com/kerala/298-persons-killed-wayanad-landslides-govt-informs-parliament-1395259",
   "severity": "Catastrophic"
  },
  {
   "id": "kalladi-2026",
   "date": "2026-07-07",
   "place": "Kalladi tunnel site, Meppadi",
   "district": "Wayanad",
   "lat": 11.52184,
   "lon": 76.13315,
   "deaths": 8,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "At the Anakkampoyil–Meppadi tunnel works. Dumped excavated earth is a suspected cause; a minister called it man-made.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "Eos Landslide Blog, Jul 2026",
   "url": "https://eos.org/thelandslideblog/kalladi-landslide-1",
   "severity": "Serious"
  },
  {
   "id": "adoormala-2026",
   "date": "2026-08-01",
   "place": "Adoormala, Kudayathoor",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 9.845,
   "lon": 76.79,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "House buried; husband and son rescued.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "The Federal, 1 Aug 2026",
   "url": "https://thefederal.com/category/states/south/kerala/kerala-rain-woman-killed-idukki-landslide-central-districts-3-die-252171",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "poonjar-2026",
   "date": "2026-08-01",
   "place": "Payyanithottam, Poonjar Thekkekkara",
   "district": "Kottayam",
   "lat": 9.665,
   "lon": 76.83,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Reported the same day as Adoormala and Vagamon.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "The Week, 1 Aug 2026",
   "url": "https://www.theweek.in/news/india/2026/08/01/three-dead-in-landslides-in-kerala-after-heavy-rains-several-feared-trapped-under-debris.html",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "vagamon-2026",
   "date": "2026-08-01",
   "place": "Vagamon",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 9.685,
   "lon": 76.905,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Slide hit a house at night.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "The Federal, 1 Aug 2026",
   "url": "https://thefederal.com/category/states/south/kerala/kerala-rain-woman-killed-idukki-landslide-central-districts-3-die-252171",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "kottakamboor-2026",
   "date": "2026-09-20",
   "place": "Kottakamboor, Vattavada",
   "district": "Idukki",
   "lat": 10.18,
   "lon": 77.235,
   "deaths": 2,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "Farm shed buried after three hours of heavy rain; one survivor critically injured.",
   "conf": "High",
   "source": "Asianet Newsable, 20 Sep 2026",
   "url": "https://newsable.asianetnews.com/india/two-dead-one-critical-after-landslide-strikes-idukki-s-kottakamboor-articleshow-5bk6y6o",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "poonjar-2026-09",
   "date": "2026-09-20",
   "place": "Poonjar",
   "district": "Kottayam",
   "lat": 9.675,
   "lon": 76.81,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "An 80-year-old man killed when a slide struck his house; two other occupants survived.",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "The Watchers, 22 Sep 2026",
   "url": "https://watchers.news/2026/09/22/death-toll-rises-to-10-after-deadly-flash-flood-and-landslides-in-kerala-india/",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  },
  {
   "id": "teekoy-2026",
   "date": "2026-09-20",
   "place": "Erattupetta–Vagamon road, near Teekoy",
   "district": "Kottayam",
   "lat": 9.69,
   "lon": 76.84,
   "deaths": 1,
   "missing": 0,
   "notes": "A traveller from Chennai killed by a slide on the road. Same storm as Kottakamboor and the Kottapuzha flash flood (flood deaths not counted).",
   "conf": "Medium",
   "source": "The Watchers, 22 Sep 2026",
   "url": "https://watchers.news/2026/09/22/death-toll-rises-to-10-after-deadly-flash-flood-and-landslides-in-kerala-india/",
   "severity": "Fatal"
  }
 ]
}