Typhoon Saudel

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Posting Date: August 28, 2026, 11:00:00 AM

Typhoon Saudel — the 18th typhoon of 2026 and the third to hit Zhejiang province this year — made two landfalls in eastern China on Friday, August 28, first near Yuhuan in Taizhou City around 8:05 a.m. local time with sustained winds of 35 meters per second (~75 mph), and again near Wenzhou about an hour later with winds of 33 meters per second (~70 mph). Zhejiang authorities raised the typhoon emergency response to Level I, the highest level, and took measures to keep people, vessels, and activities off the water ahead of the storm. The response involved large-scale evacuations: Wenzhou's government ordered more than 820,000 people evacuated, while Taizhou identified 52,000 people needing evacuation and suspended eight passenger ferry routes. In neighboring Fujian province, roughly 250,000 residents in high-risk areas had been evacuated as the storm approached.

ALERT™ subscribers can download similar stochastic event (SSE) IDs for Typhoon Saudel’s impacts in China from the Downloads tab of this posting on the ALERT website. Compatible with Touchstone® and Touchstone Re™, the SSEs were selected based on the event’s track, minimum central pressure, estimated winds, forward speed, and approach angle. They should only be used with exposures in China.

The storm caused widespread disruption to transportation and infrastructure across the region. Rail operator China Railway Shanghai Group suspended some services on several lines in Zhejiang, while Fujian halted coastal projects and closed 57 passenger ferry routes. Flights were grounded at Ningbo's airport and 197 flights were cancelled in Wenzhou, and Shanghai's ferry services were largely suspended. Major ports also shut down: the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan halted operations and Shanghai's Yangshan and Waigaoqiao terminals suspended activity as the storm approached. On specific building damage, U.S. Embassy alerts prior to landfall warned that the code orange typhoon warning in Zhejiang indicated potential for localized structural damage, alongside a code red warning for flash flooding and mudslides in mountainous areas. As of the most recent reporting, detailed damage assessments (collapsed or damaged structures) had not yet been published — coverage so far has focused on evacuations, transport suspensions, and flood/mudslide risk as the storm continues to move inland toward Hubei, Guangxi, and Yunnan, with heavy rainfall considered the primary ongoing hazard given already-saturated ground from earlier storms this season.

No additional ALERT postings are planned for Saudel at this time.  Please contact your Verisk representative with any questions.

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Posting Date: August 28, 2026, 11:00:00 AM

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