Disasters for March 2025
In March 2025, the ASEAN region recorded 230 significant disasters, marking a 1.2x increase compared to March 2024 (193 disasters) and 1.7x above the five-year average for March (137 disasters). This translates to an average of 7 disasters per day, a sharp increase from the average of 4 over the past five years. The ASEAN Member States affected by these events were Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Indonesia continued to account for the majority of reported disasters, with 84.35% of incidents recorded in the country. Malaysia reported 5 occurrences (2.17%), Myanmar 1 (0.43%), the Philippines 8 (3.48%), Thailand 21 (9.13%), and Viet Nam 1 (0.43%). Of the 230 reported significant disasters, the first three weeks recorded the highest number of occurrences which ranged from 50 to 61 disasters per week.
Meanwhile, while the last week of March 2025 saw the least number of disaster events (24), the surge of impacts was recorded in this period, with 99% of all fatalities, 99.32% of all injuries, and 86.36% of all missing people reported in March 2025. Overall, for the month of March 2025, the recorded significant disasters had an average of 7.5K affected individuals per disaster occurrence, which was 1.5x more than the five-year (2020-2024) average. These reported significant disasters affected 249 per 100,000 people* in the ASEAN Region. Meanwhile, about 49 per 100,000 people* in the region have been displaced.
