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Since January 2019, heavy rainfall had been triggering flash floods, mudslides and landslides in various provinces, especially Bujumbura ([[Bujumbura Mairie Province|Mairie]] and [[Bujumbura Rural Province|Rural]]), Cibitoke, Bubanza, [[Muyinga Province|Muyinga]], Cankuzo, and [[Muramvya Province|Muramvya]] provinces. Resultingly, almost 13,000 people were displaced, and 45 people died.<ref name=":6" /> Furthermore, these natural disasters caused extensive damage to local infrastructure systems, and hampered access to essential sources of food, water, education and healthcare. This also brought a heightened risk of the transmission of infectious disease due to the resulting proliferation of mosquitoes as vectors.<ref name=":3" />
As of September 2019, there were 103,412 [[internally displaced person]]s (IDPs) in Burundi, of which roughly 79,600 or 77% were displaced due to natural disasters (including over 8,400 displaced since January 2019), mainly in the regions bordering [[Lake Tanganyika]], and the north-western and central provinces, according to the [[International Organization for Migration]]'s (IOM) Displacement Tracking Matrix.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://reliefweb.int/report/burundi/burundi-floods-landslides-flash-update-no-1-6-december-2019|title=Burundi: Floods & Landslides Flash Update No. 1, 6 December 2019 – Burundi|website=ReliefWeb|access-date=December 17, 2019}}</ref>
According to the [[European Union]]'s [[Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations|Directorate-General for European Civil-protection and Humanitarian-aid Operations]] (DG ECHO) the risk of natural disaster continued to increase day-by-day with the early onset of the Burundian September 2019 rainy season and above-average rainfall forecasted by the United States' [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]] (US NOAA).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://erccportal.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ECHO-Flash/ECHO-Flash-List/yy/2019/mm/12|title=ECHO Flash List|publisher=European Commission|access-date=December 20, 2019}}</ref> The [[US Agency for International Development]]'s (USAID's) [[Famine Early Warning Systems Network]] (FEWSNET) reported that the greater [[horn of Africa]] region received up to 300 per cent above average rainfall from October to mid-November 2019. UNOCHA now considers Burundi to be among the twenty most vulnerable countries to climate change and natural hazards.<ref name=":3" />
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