2025 Punjab, India floods
| Date | 20 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Location | Punjab, India |
| Cause | Heavy Monsoon Rainfall, Cloud Bursts, Water Dams |
| Deaths | >55 |
| Property damage | Over 1,400 villages and more than 2.5 lakh acres of farmland flooded, ~3.54 million residents affected, 20,000 rescued. |
In August 2025, around 1400 villages in more than 13 districts of Punjab, India faced a devastating flood crisis, regarded as the worst in nearly four decades since 1988. The floods, caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains in the upper catchment areas (particularly Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir), along with surplus water releases from several dams — notably Pong, Ranjit Sagar, and Bhakra — which intensified flooding in downstream districts, particularly along the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers.
The severely affected districts of Punjab were Gurdaspur, Amritsar, Ferozepur, Pathankot, Kapurthala and Fazilka. Other districts like Tarn Taran, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala, Rupnagar, Moga, Sangrur, Barnala, Patiala and SAS Nagar (Mohali) also been heavily impacted by the floods suffering crop damage, displacement, and infrastructure loss.
These floods also affected the neighbouring states of Punjab in north India like Himachal Pardesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal and also in state of Punjab in Pakistan.