Disaster related incidents claim 745 lives across the country in one year

Kathmandu, April 13: Disaster related incidents claimed 745 lives across the country in 2081BS. According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, total 8,861 disaster related incidents occurred and 745 people were killed in such incidents in one year.

Similarly, 69 people went missing and 1,702 sustained injuries in such incidents, said Authority Spokesperson, Ram Bahadur KC.

Disaster related incidents affected 18,991 households and property worth Rs 3.13 billion was damaged during the period.

According to the Authority, the highest number of people (351) lost their lives from landslides, 97 from flood, 78 from lightning and 77 from fire incidents.

Similarly, eight people died from incidents induced by heavy rainfall, 43 from wildlife attack, 24 from altitude sickness, 23 from air crash, 19 from snakebite, 10 from forest fire, seven from storm, one from boat collapse and seven others from other reasons.

Likewise, 48 people went missing in landslide, 18 in flood and three in avalanche.

While studying the number of disaster related incidents, the highest number of fire incidents took place this year. As per the record of the incidents from April 12, 2024 to April 11, 2025, 4,145 fire incidents were occurred followed by forest fire (1,195) and 1,005 landslide incidents.

Similarly, 418 incidents cause by flood, 568 incidents by heavy rainfall, 418 incidents by lightning, 477 incidents of wildlife attack, 111 incidents of altitude sickness, two aircraft crashes, 84 incidents of snakebite, 349 incidents of storm, one of boat collapse, six incidents of snow avalanche, 74 incidents of earthquake, one of hailstone and seven others disaster related incidents were occurred during the period, added Authority.