Climate India 2024: An Assessment of Extreme Weather Events

November 08, 2024

India faced extreme weather events on 93 per cent of days in the first nine months of this year, marked by heat and coldwaves, cyclones, lightning, heavy rain, floods, and landslides. These events claimed 3,238 lives, affected 3.2 million hectares of crops, destroyed 235,862 houses, and killed approximately 9,457 livestock. This reported damage is likely an underestimate due to incomplete data collection on eventspecific losses, particularly public property and crop damage.