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International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025

2025

13 October 2025

Confirmed

Dates confirmed from the organiser’s announcement on 15 September 2026.

Organiser: UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)

Read the organiser’s pageAdd this date to your calendar

Theme

Fund Resilience, Not Disasters

The organiser’s announcement of this theme

What changed

The 2025 day called for more disaster risk reduction funding in public budgets and for risk-informed private investment.

Why the day exists

Disaster & climate

2 milliondeaths from weather, climate and water-related disasters, 1970 to 2021

Deaths from weather, climate and water-related hazards, 1970–2021 — worldwide, 2023. Source: World Meteorological Organization, Atlas of Mortality and Economic Losses from Weather, Climate and Water-related Hazards (1970–2021) (2023).

“The death toll is at 2 million, with 90% are in developing countries”

More figures for this hazard

How organisations mark it

  • Register a local event on the UNDRR campaign site and use the year's social media toolkit.
  • Review your organisation's or household's plan against the year's theme, and publish what you changed.
  • Check that hazard warnings actually reach everyone in a building or household, in a form they understand.
  • Brief councillors or a board on local disaster losses and what investment in resilience would cost.

Sources

  1. UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) — International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025 — www.un.org, read 15 September 2026.
  2. International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction — UNDRR campaign site — iddrr.undrr.org, read 15 September 2026.
  3. UNDRR announces "Resilience Starts at Home" as the 2026 theme — www.undrr.org, read 15 September 2026.
  4. 2026 Calendar of Selected United Nations Events — www.un.org, read 15 September 2026.