Life-Safety Intelligence for IndiaLeh is the district headquarters of Ladakh, a dry mountain town at about 3,500 metres where one night of rain in August 2010 changed the whole town. This guide puts the emergency numbers and the main local hazards on one page, with dated examples from Leh and the villages around it, within about 20 km.
Checked 15 Nov 2026 Incidents update automatically. Emergency card for the fridge or your phone112: Single emergency number for police, fire and ambulance. Printed on the Ladakh Police page · 101: Listed as Fire Service on the Leh district website. If 101 does not connect, call 112 · 108: Listed on the Leh district website. If it does not connect, call 112 · 100: Listed on the Leh district website. Also reachable through 112
Print the Leh emergency card for the fridge or the front door, and cut out the wallet cards. It holds 112, 101, the ambulance and police numbers. This guide has no local numbers yet, so there are blank lines to write your local fire station, police station and nearest hospital, and your family contacts.
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Checked 15 November 2026. Numbers can change; re-check them before you rely on them.
Just after midnight on 6 August 2010, a cloudburst above the town sent stones, mud and water down through the lanes below the Leh Gate. The bus stand, the hospital area and the telephone exchange were hit, Choglamsar about 7 km away was badly damaged, and at least 255 people died across Ladakh.
On the night of 21 July 2023, a cloudburst at Horzey village, about 1 km from the main market, sent water and silt into Leh market and nearby houses. No death was reported, but the Leh Nubra road and other roads were damaged and tourists were stranded for hours on the Tangtse Changla road.
On a Thursday a fire destroyed 11 shops at Skalzangling in Leh, causing heavy losses for the shopkeepers. The cause was still under investigation.
The national seismology centre describes the Zanskar and Kargil area, about 100 km from Leh, as seismically very active because the Indian and Eurasian plates collide there. A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck on 18 December 2023, shallow at 10 km, with shaking felt up to intensity V near the epicentre.
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