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Kenya Disaster displacement worsening 13 October 2026

Kenya: 40,750 disaster-driven internal displacements between 2026-07-01 and 2026-07-31 (IDMC IDU)

Disaster-driven internal displacements per month (people)

According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, between 1 July and 31 July 2026 Kenya recorded 40,750 disaster-driven internal displacements across 2 flood events, deduplicated to one figure per event. This figure exceeds the 90th percentile of Kenya's own monthly record over the previous 9 months, which stands at 24,868. Of the total, 40,000 displacements were recorded on 19 July in Baringo County, around Lake Baringo and Lake Bogoria, with local humanitarian organisations as the source. The remaining 750 were recorded on 18 July in Loiyangalani sub-county, Marsabit, with the county government as the source.

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How this fired

RuleDisplacement in a month against the country's own record
Period2026-07-01 to 2026-07-31
Displacement in the month40,750
Events in the month2
Months of history compared9
90th percentile of that history24,868
Judged againstan absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 24,868. Fired on: history_percentile.
Detected13 October 2026, run 19

Evidence

IDMC Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event Country page All alerts for Kenya JSON
key displacement_window:KEN:disaster:2026-07