Monsoon Rain & Landslide Watch

Recent and forecast rainfall for Haputale, set against what heavy rain has done here before — with the NBRO and Disaster Management Centre channels to follow. Awareness only, never a landslide prediction.

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When heavy rain has caused landslides here

Cyclone rains and evacuations, November 2025

In late November 2025, days of relentless rain brought an NBRO Red Alert to the hill country. In the Haputale and Haldummulla Divisional Secretariat areas, 301 people from 111 families were moved to safety, and the A16 Beragala–Hali-Ela road — the main road through town — was blocked by a landslide. It is the clearest recent reminder that here the danger builds over several wet days, not in a single downpour.

Source: Lankan.org, checked 11 July 2026 (3 months ago).

A warning zone almost every monsoon

The NBRO has issued landslide early warnings for the Badulla district — Haputale among the named divisions — in December 2024, again during the November 2025 cyclone, and in May 2026. Haputale's wettest, highest-risk stretches are the southwest monsoon (roughly May to September) and the second inter-monsoon (October to December), when rain can fall for days at a time.

Source: National Building Research Organisation (NBRO), checked 11 July 2026 (3 months ago).

Official channels — follow these, not this page

This page is not an alert service. When heavy rain is falling or a warning is in force, these are the bodies that decide and announce. If you are told to move, move.

National Building Research Organisation (NBRO)

Issues landslide early warnings by Divisional Secretariat division, and free homeowner risk assessments in flagged areas.

Website: nbro.gov.lk

Disaster Management Centre — 24-hour call centre

Report landslides, flooding or people at risk; the DMC coordinates evacuation through the District and Divisional Secretariats.

Phone: 117

Haputale Divisional Secretariat

Coordinates local disaster response and evacuation through the Grama Niladhari for your area.

Website