1953 Northern Kyushu flood

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "1953 Northern Kyushu flood" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2010) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Japanese. (August 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Japanese Wikipedia article at [[:ja:昭和28年西日本水害]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ja|昭和28年西日本水害}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

1953 North Kyushu flood

Driftwood advancing on Daifuku village, Fukuoka
Meteorological history
Duration	25 June 1953 (1953-06-25)–29 June 1953 (1953-06-29)[1]
Overall effects
Fatalities	771
Damage	¥222 billion
Areas affected	Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture, Ōita Prefecture and other regions of Northern Kyushu

The 1953 North Kyushu flood was a flood which hit Northern Kyushu, Japan (Fukuoka Prefecture, Saga Prefecture, Kumamoto Prefecture and Ōita Prefecture) in June 1953. The flood was caused by cloudbursts and prolonged rain from the Meiyu rain front which dropped 1,000 mm (3.3 ft.) of rain over Mount Aso and Mount Hiko. This downpour resulted in the overflow of many of the surrounding rivers, such as the Chikugo River.

The flood was a major disaster with 771 people dead or missing, 450,000 houses flooded, and about 1 million people affected. Due to the severity of the disaster, flood control measures along rivers in Northern Kyushu were fundamentally revised, with many of the changes still in place.

The flood was not given an official name by the Japan Meteorological Agency which has resulted in it being referred to differently in a variety of sources. In Kumamoto Prefecture, Shirakawa Great Flood (白川大水害)^{[note 1]} or 6.26 Flood (6.26水害)^{[note 2]} are usually used. In Kitakyushu city, they tend to use North Kyushu Great Flood (北九州大水害).

Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page).