HUMAN LIFE LOSS DUE TO NATURAL CALAMITIES
FAMINE
A great famine in 1877-78, followed by fever epidemic in 1879 caused almost 41000 of deaths in the area of Pilibhit, Puranpur, Bisalpur.
DISEASE
Almost 2,73,362 people died in 1911-21 due to various epidemics such as Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Yellow Fever, Gastroenteritis in this area, due to which population growth during 1911-21 was negative.
FLOOD
Pilibhit comes under the High Risk Flood Zone. Almost every year some part of district is affected by massive floods. but the city has seen disastrous floods and massive distraction due to flood, thrice in last fifty years, in July 1971, Sept 1989 and Sept 2008.
More than Rupees 15 millions worth of damage and more than 43 human casualties had been reported by the government sources during the flood in September 2008 in the district Pilibhit. Puranpur tehshil was the worst hit by the flood.
Pilibhit again saw devastation of flood in 2010, two school buildings were washed away by the floods and Two persons were reported to be missing from the Devha river bridge. A number of villages in trans-Sharda area in Pilibhit had been affected by these floods.
The lower areas of Pilibhit city, faced flood situation after two days of continuous raining in August 2011, District administration raised alarm to the public to go to safe places.
SEISMIC HISTORY
Pilibhit comes under seismic zone-4, which is a High Risk Seismic Zone. According to Government of India, Pilibhit town is considered to be top 30 cities in the
