Nepal Flood Missing List 2026: Search, Report & Live Death Toll Updates (Rasuwa, Nuwakot & Dhading)

Last verified: September 12, 2026

This Nepal flood missing list is still being updated daily. Since the Bhotekoshi flood tore through Rasuwa on August 26, families have been waiting for one name to be confirmed.

48 helicopters flew over Rasuwa again today. Not because the story is over — because it isn’t. The headlines have moved on. The search hasn’t.

I’ve spent eight years inside Nepal’s civil service. I know how government numbers get reported, and I know how easily they get misread — including by me. Every figure below is checked against the official NDRRMA report, and cross-checked against independent reporting, before it goes up here. If I got something wrong in an earlier version, I say so. If something changes, I tell you it changed.

Quick Facts: Nepal Flood Toll as of September 11, 6 PM

Metric	Figure
Deaths recovered	1,386
Still missing	5,130
People rescued	13,676
DNA samples collected (remains / relatives)	1,286 / 1,751
Holding centers / people sheltering	37 / 3,685
Security personnel deployed	21,022
Days since the flood (Aug 26)	17

Here’s exactly where things stand.

1,386 Recovered — And the Number the Government Quietly Stopped Printing

The number that matters most tonight isn’t the death toll. It’s the gap between a body and a name.

1,386 people have been recovered as of this evening’s bulletin — up from 1,385 at the same authority’s 11 AM update, per NDRRMA spokesperson Shanti Mahat. Yes, the number moved twice today. That’s not a mistake on my end. It’s how fast this is still changing.

Here’s the quieter change: NDRRMA used to publish a clean “X identified” number. That number is gone now. In its place: 1,286 DNA samples from recovered remains, and 1,751 from grieving relatives, being matched one pair at a time. Overseas families are being asked to get Autosomal STR profiling done locally and email the results in — no travel required.

I won’t call that good news or bad news. It’s just what identification looks like now: slower, more exact, harder to compress into a single headline number. If you were watching for an “X identified” figure, it’s not coming back — DNA matching is the mechanism now, and I’d rather say that plainly than let the silence speak for me.

One more option, alongside DNA: Nepal Police has posted photographs of unidentified bodies at udb.nepalpolice.gov.np/dead-bodies. Hard to look at. Also, for some families, faster than waiting weeks for a lab result.

Two more deaths are in tonight’s 1,386 — people who died during treatment in Kathmandu, away from any single disaster site, which is why they don’t appear in the district table below.

5,130 Still Missing — What That Number Actually Means

Missing does not mean dead. Timure, Syabrubesi, and the Rasuwagadhi border belt lost phone signal in the flood’s first hours, and parts of that region still haven’t gotten it back. Somewhere in that 5,130 are people who are alive, uninjured, and simply unreachable — reduced to a name on a list because no signal, no road, and no visit has yet closed their case.

The missing include Nepal Army, Police and Armed Police Force personnel, government employees, bank staff, and foreign nationals — the last confirmed nationality breakdown put foreign nationals missing at roughly 587, though NDRRMA’s most recent bulletins don’t republish that specific cut, so treat it as the latest solid figure rather than tonight’s exact count.

The River Didn’t Stop Where You’d Expect

Chitwan has recovered more bodies than any other district — 364 — and it isn’t even the district closest to where the water broke through. The river carried people a long way before it let them go.

District	Bodies
Chitwan	364
Nawalparasi East	228
Nawalparasi West	222
Nuwakot	199
Rasuwa	185
Gorkha	77
Dhading	70
Tanahun	38

(District total: 1,383. Add the 2 who died during treatment in Kathmandu, and you get 1,385 — the 11 AM figure. The evening bulletin’s 1,386 reflects one more death recorded since; NDRRMA hasn’t yet specified which district it belongs to.)

Who’s Still Out There Looking

More than 1,700 combined helicopter flights so far — Nepal Army flights alone account for roughly 1,455 of those, with 48 flown today — plus Armed Police Force flights and ground teams that don’t make the news. 13,676 people rescued in total.

21,022 security personnel remain deployed across Police, Army, and Armed Police Force.

3,685 people are sheltering in 37 holding centers: Nuwakot 2,615, Rasuwa 775, Dhading 295.

337 people are currently admitted for treatment, 261 have been discharged — across 19 hospitals.

The government has released NPR 150 million in assistance so far — I don’t yet have a confirmed district-by-district split for this updated total, so I’m not going to guess at one.

Want to help instead of search? I’ve already checked these channels so you don’t have to guess: Where to Donate Safely for Rasuwa Flood Victims.

The New Danger Nobody’s Talking About

Eighteen kilometres above Rasuwagadhi, debris has dammed the Lhende Khola into a lake that didn’t exist a month ago. If it breaches, a second surge could hit Nuwakot and Dhading. If your family lives anywhere near these rivers, please hear this clearly: one flood does not mean the danger has passed. Full detail here: A New Lake Just Formed Above Rasuwa.

What To Do Right Now: How to Search the Nepal Flood Missing List

Search by name: Nepal Police’s official register is at udb.nepalpolice.gov.np. It covers both people reported missing and bodies recovered but not yet identified. This is the same source Kathmandu-based embassies are directing their own citizens to. If it loads blank, that’s a known mobile-browser issue — try it on a computer instead.

Have ready, if you need to file or update a report: full name, age, last known location, a photo if you have one.

Foreign national or tourist? Your embassy in Kathmandu is already cross-checking names against hospital and shelter lists — this is real, ongoing work, not a formality. Reach out to them directly if you haven’t already.

Found your person, or confirmed the worst? Update the record you originally filed — through the same channel, whether that was the police register, an embassy, or a district office — so the case can close and attention shifts to whoever’s still waiting.

The Questions I Get Asked Every Single Day

Is there a website to search the Nepal flood missing list directly? Yes — Nepal Police runs an official searchable register at udb.nepalpolice.gov.np, covering both reported-missing records and recovered-but-unidentified bodies. It’s the same source foreign embassies in Kathmandu are pointing their own citizens to. It can be slow to load and some report it displaying blank on mobile browsers — try a laptop or desktop if it doesn’t load on your phone.

Is the death toll final? No. 1,386 recovered as of this evening, DNA matching underway (1,286 remains samples, 1,751 relative samples), 5,130 still unaccounted for. Both numbers moved twice today alone — they’ll keep moving.

How many people have been rescued so far? 13,676, including roughly 1,455 Nepal Army helicopter flights out of more than 1,700 combined flights.

Which districts have the highest death toll? Chitwan, Nawalparasi East, Nawalparasi West, Nuwakot, Rasuwa — in that order.

I found my missing family member. What now? Update whichever record you originally filed — the Nepal Police register, an embassy, or a district office — so their name comes off the list. Someone else is still waiting for the space that clears.

How this page is checked: every figure here is cross-referenced against the official NDRRMA source and independent wire reporting before publishing. When the government changes how it’s counting — or stops publishing something it used to — I flag that here too. Not hidden behind a cleaner number.

More on my background in Nepal’s civil service on the About page.

Sources: NDRRMA official situation update, Bhadra 26, 2083 (September 11, 2026, 6 PM) · Nepal Police · Nepal Tourism Board

Understand. Decide. Act. — Current Watch, santoshikc.com.np