Natural disasters bring many unusual factors
On the afternoon of November 25, the forum " application of Science and Technology in forecasting and early warning of natural disasters" organized by the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (Ministry of Agriculture and Environment), the Community Fund for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control (QPT) was held.
At the forum, Mr. Nguyen Ton Quan - Deputy Head of the Department of Community and Communications Disaster Management, Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control - said that from the beginning of 2025 until now, natural disasters have occurred in a series of cases, fiercely, on a large scale, carrying many unusual factors, exceeding historical levels.
There have been 19 storms and tropical depressions in the East Sea, only one storm less than the 2017 record. Currently, the tropical depression is active in the Philippine Sea, likely to enter the East Sea and become the 15th storm.
Extreme heavy rain, historic floods on 13 rivers in the Northern and Central regions. Flooding is very serious in urban areas and low-lying areas, especially in Ha Giang, Thai Nguyen, Bac Ninh, Hanoi, Dak Lak cities...
"Many areas have suffered all of the above natural disasters in a short time, leading to double natural disasters such as storms overlapping, floods overlapping, flash floods, landslides, especially in the mountainous and midland provinces of the North and Central regions, seriously threatening the safety of natural disaster prevention and control works, infrastructure, especially transportation systems, telecommunications, electricity, dykes, dams, etc. In particular, causing very serious damage to people and property of the people", said Mr. Nguyen Ton Quan.
According to data from the Department of Dyke Management and Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, as of November 24, 2025, natural disasters across the country have left 409 people dead or missing, 727 injured; 3,714 houses collapsed, collapsed, or drifted, 333,583 houses damaged or had their roofs blown off; 553,417 hectares of rice and crops... The total estimated damage is over VND 85,099 billion.
Need to enhance capacity, improve forecast reliability
According to Mr. Nguyen Ton Quan, there is still a risk of heavy rain and floods in the Central region in the last months of 2025, specifically in the coming days, there may be a storm No. 15 in the East Sea and the risk of making landfall, continuing to cause floods in the South Central region that has just suffered heavy damage due to floods. Localities need to focus on overcoming the consequences of floods to be ready to respond to the next natural disasters.
Therefore, in the coming time, it is necessary to increase capacity, improve the reliability of natural disaster forecasting and warning, focusing on increasing the density of rain gauge stations and improving the quality of heavy rain forecasting to serve the warning of flash floods, landslides, inundation; make a map to warn of natural disasters, especially a detailed zoning map for the risk of flash floods and landslides to the village and hamlet level.
Review, arrange and relocate people in areas at high risk of natural disasters, especially landslides, flash floods in mountainous areas, deep flooding in low-lying areas; adjust the structure of crops and livestock in regions and localities in a more natural, efficient, sustainable and safer direction than natural disasters.
Strengthen community awareness and community-based disaster risk management; instruct on response skills suitable for indigenous natural disaster types in each locality and area; increase communication and communication work so that forecast information, warnings, disaster situations, and direction are promptly conveyed so that people can proactively respond.
In particular, continue to extensively promote international cooperation and the application of science and technology in natural disaster prevention and control, especially digital transformation, real-time disaster monitoring and supervision.
