Nigeria's Hydrological Services Agency (NiHSA) has issued its annual flood outlook warning that 33 states face flooding risks in 2026, with conditions expected to peak between July and September during the height of the rainy season. Over 14,000 communities have been classified as high risk and nearly 16,000 as moderate risk, with major cities including Abuja, Lagos, and Port Harcourt, as well as coastal states in the Niger Delta, particularly vulnerable to river and tidal flooding. The warning comes as Nigeria continues to grapple with recurring seasonal disasters — its worst floods in over a decade, in 2022, killed more than 600 people, displaced 1.4 million, and devastated nearly half a million hectares of farmland.