Wanli Creek river-zone red alert continues; nationwide Indigenous-area monitoring

00:18 update

Information time: October 17, 2026, 00:18. The latest official Wanli Creek status update was issued on October 12. The latest personnel administration page was updated at 23:56 on October 16, and the Taitung Airport page was checked at 00:18 on October 17.

Official sources: Forestry and Nature Conservation Agency's October 12 Wanli Creek update, Public Warning Platform, Central Weather Administration weather advisories, Water Resources Agency disaster information, Agency of Rural Development and Soil and Water Conservation alert list, Directorate-General of Personnel Administration work/class status, and Taitung Airport daily flights.

Affected Indigenous areas and alert levels:

• Wanrong, Hualien—Wanli Creek: The latest agency update reports that the dam remains intact and overflow is stable, but storage continues to pose risk. The Wanli Creek channel and Hualien County-designated warning zone remain `barrier-lake / red`. Red applies only to the official river-zone boundary; it does not mean all of Wanrong Township or every settlement is red.
• Lanyu air transport: October 16 cancelled sectors do not carry into October 17. As of 00:18, no October 17 suspension was confirmed. Status is `transport / monitoring`; this is not red. Travellers should confirm new-day service with the airport or airline before departure.
• Other Indigenous areas: The Central Weather Administration county table lists no active advisories. The slope-hazard system lists zero red or yellow debris-flow alerts and zero red or yellow large-scale-landslide alerts. The latest personnel administration page, updated at 23:56 on October 16, listed no work/class suspension, and no October 17 notice was found. No other threshold-level official change was found.

Nationwide assessment:

• North: No official threshold-level heavy-rain, thunderstorm, level-one flood, flash-rise, slope-alert escalation, road closure, evacuation, sheltering, work/class suspension, transport suspension, major agricultural-loss risk or public-service interruption was found for Wulai, Fuxing, Jianshi, Wufeng, Nanzhuang, Tai'an or lowland Indigenous areas; monitoring continues.
• Central: No such threshold-level official change was found for Heping, Ren'ai, Xinyi or Alishan; monitoring continues.
• South: No such threshold-level official change was found for Indigenous areas in mountainous Tainan, Kaohsiung or Pingtung; monitoring continues.
• East: The Wanli Creek channel and designated warning zone remain red. Lanyu air transport is under transport / monitoring for October 17. No new threshold-level official change was found elsewhere in Yilan, Hualien or Taitung Indigenous areas.

Recommended action: Do not enter the Wanli Creek embankment area, riverbed or designated warning zone. Lanyu travellers should confirm new-day service before departure. Follow the latest official notices.