According to IDMC's Internal Displacement Updates, deduplicated to one figure per event, Nepal recorded 36,171 disaster-driven internal displacements across 44 events between 1 and 31 August 2026. The rule compared this monthly figure with Nepal's own record over the previous 15 months, in which the 90th percentile of monthly displacements was 211. The largest figure in the evidence, 31,875 displacements dated 26 August 2026, relates to a landslide and wet mass movement event affecting Gyirong in Tibet, China, and 9 locations in Nepal, as reported by Nepal's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority.
| Rule | Displacement in a month against the country's own record |
| Period | 2026-08-01 to 2026-08-31 |
| Displacement in the month | 36,171 |
| Events in the month | 44 |
| Months of history compared | 15 |
| 90th percentile of that history | 211 |
| Judged against | an absolute floor of 50,000; the 90th percentile of the country's own record, 211. Fired on: history_percentile. |
| Detected | 10 November 2026, run 63 |