Machar Map Lahore: check your area

مچھرMap Lahore

What officials are reporting about dengue across Lahore in 2026, and how each part of the city compares in past studies.

Lahore now: 2026 so far

confirmed dengue cases this year
40
deaths reported this year
0
dengue hotspots found across the city
30,000+
warning notices issued for breeding, to mid-August
106,000+

Confirmed dengue cases in Lahore each year, 2021 to 2026 so far.6, 53

Sources: Metropolitan Corporation of Lahore via The Express Tribune6, Punjab health department figures reported in Daily Pakistan53, and Lahore administration briefings reported in the press.17 The city does not publish case counts for each area, so this page gathers what officials have said. Figures change daily; call 1033 for the latest.16

Check your area

Type your area, union council or housing society to see what officials have reported there, year by year.

What to check at home

Where larvae were found in Lahore

Larvae and pupae collected by breeding place, 2013 survey.4

    Five checks each week

    • Drain and dry room coolersThe most common larval site found by Punjab surveillance teams.7
    • Cover water tanks and storage drumsRooftop tanks and stored water are among the most preferred breeding places in Punjab.8
    • Empty or throw away containersPlastic containers, tins and pots held the most larvae in Lahore.4
    • Check inside, not just outsideMore than half of positive breeding sites in a 2023–24 Punjab survey were indoors.9
    • Report blocked drains and nullahsDrains held larvae in Lahore, and are for the city to clear.4

    How to bring dengue down in your community

    Mosquito levels change street by street, and most of what lowers them is in residents' hands.

    Start a street team

    1. Walk your street after rainNote every place water stands, with a photo and your phone's location.
    2. Rank the streets each weekCount the open water sources on each street, and start with the worst.
    3. Take the list to the programThrough your union council or the 1033 helpline, agree with the Punjab Anti-Dengue Program which sources they will fix and where fogging is needed.16
    4. Fix what neighbours canSeal, cover or drain tanks, coolers and containers; the program deals with drains and nullahs.
    5. Count larvae before and afterCheck the same houses before and after the fixes, so you can see what changed.
    6. Keep the proofDated photos, lists and any letters from the program.

    Why it works: in the Camino Verde trial, neighbourhoods that ran their own clean-ups had 44.1% fewer houses with larvae and a 29.5% lower risk of dengue infection in children.10 Fogging alone kills adult mosquitoes for only a short time.13

    Protect your household

    • Stop daytime bitesDengue mosquitoes bite mainly during the day, so use repellent and cover arms and legs.14 In a Lahore study, not using repellent was linked to catching dengue.12
    • Screen windows and doorsHouse screening was linked to much lower dengue risk in a review of control methods.11
    • Keep a sick person from being bittenSomeone with dengue can pass it to mosquitoes for about 4 to 5 days after symptoms start, so use a net and repellent to protect the rest of the family.15

    If someone has a fever

    • Use paracetamol, never aspirin or ibuprofenAspirin and ibuprofen can increase the risk of bleeding in dengue.14
    • Go to hospital at once for warning signsSevere stomach pain, repeated vomiting, fast breathing, bleeding gums or nose, blood in vomit or stool, restlessness or extreme tiredness, often as the fever falls.14
    • Call 1033 for adviceThe Punjab health helpline is free.16

    Every area, by zone

    Every union council in both official lists, 2001 and 2015, the other names people use for them, and major housing societies such as DHA, Askari, Bahria Town, Lake City, LDA City and Park View City, grouped by zone. Tap any area to see its figures.

    How the figures work

    Studies of dengue in Lahore report their results by zone, not by street, so every area shows the figures for its whole zone. Areas come from both official lists of union councils: the 2001 list of 152, whose zones match the studies, and the 2015 list of 274.5 Zone boundaries shifted slightly in 2015, so a few 2015 areas near a boundary may fall in a different zone from the one the studies used.

    2026 information

    Lahore does not publish dengue counts for each area during the season. The 2026 information on this page comes from the Metropolitan Corporation of Lahore's citywide figures, the Punjab health department's case counts, and official briefings reported in the press: which towns have the most larval hotspots, where extra surveillance was ordered, and where officials inspected anti-dengue work. Each item is dated and sourced.

    Reports from 2022 to 2026

    Lahore does not publish yearly dengue figures for each zone, so this page gathers every official figure reported in the press that names a zone or area: daily case counts by zone, lists of high-risk zones and hotspots, larval counts and orders for extra surveillance. Each zone's count is the number of these reports that named it for cases, larvae or hotspots. I searched news archives from 2021 to 2026 for every such report; the reports are still a sample of days, not a complete record, so a low count means a zone was mentioned less often, not that it had no dengue. No zone breakdown could be found for 2024, a year with very few cases, or for 2014 to 2020. Citywide totals for each year come from the Metropolitan Corporation of Lahore.6

    The measures from past studies

    Dengue cases = 100,000 × confirmed cases in 2008 ÷ zone population
    Larvae = % of ovitraps holding Aedes larvae, averaged over 12 seasonal surveys, 2011–13
    Adult mosquitoes = Aedes caught per person-hour, averaged over the same surveys
    Indoors and outdoors 2011–12 = high, moderate or low, from a year-long survey published in 2022

    The dengue rates are calculated here from the 2008 study's case and population counts,1 and the larvae and adult averages from the 2011–13 study's tables.2 A year-long trap survey from September 2011 to August 2012, published in 2022, classed each zone as high, moderate or low for adult mosquitoes indoors and outdoors.3

    The two levels

    Every area gets two levels, one for dengue cases and one for mosquitoes, because the two don't always agree: they come from different years and methods. For dengue, zones are ranked by their 2008 case rate. For mosquitoes, each zone is ranked on each of the four mosquito measures, each rank is turned into a score from 0 to 1, and the scores are averaged:

    mosquito score = average over the four measures of (rank − 1) ÷ (number of zones − 1)

    Zones are then split into thirds by rank: the top third is among the highest in Lahore, the bottom third among the lowest, and the rest around the middle. In the zone list, the coloured labels show each zone's third.

    What the figures can and can't tell you

    Older entries show long-term patterns: which parts of Lahore have tended to have more dengue and mosquitoes. A zone is large, so one street can be better or worse than its zone's figures; for your own street, use the street check. For today's figures and advice, call the free Punjab health helpline, 1033.16

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    2. Qureshi EMA, Tabinda AB, Vehra S. Seasonal and spatial quantitative changes in Aedes aegypti under distinctly different ecological areas of Lahore, Pakistan. Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association 2017; 67(12): 1797–1802. PubMed
    3. Nargus S, Rana S. Geographical distribution and seasonal prevalence of Aedes aegypti in urban Lahore, Pakistan. South Asian Journal of Parasitology 2022; 6(4): 45–53 (fieldwork September 2011 to August 2012). PDF
    4. Saleem M, Ghouse G, Hussain D, Saleem HM, Abbas M. Distribution of dengue vectors during pre- and post-monsoon seasons in three districts of Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Mosquito Research 2014; 4(16): 1–5. doi
    5. List of towns in Lahore: union councils as of 2001. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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    10. Andersson N, Nava-Aguilera E, Arosteguí J, et al. Evidence based community mobilization for dengue prevention in Nicaragua and Mexico (Camino Verde): cluster randomized controlled trial. BMJ 2015; 351: h3267. doi
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    24. LDA City: housing estate in union council 146 (Kahna Nau), Nishtar. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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