Uttarakhand, the mountainous northern state that hosts Dharali, has been devastated by cloudbursts before. A June 2013 cloudburst killed over 6,000 people in Uttarakhand and surrounding states, becoming the country's worst natural disaster in ten years. In 2021, flash flooding triggered by a cloudburst killed over 200.

Thirteen individuals from Jajarkot district have gone missing following a flash flood that struck the Harsil area of Uttarkashi in India's Uttarakhand State on Tuesday afternoon.