nisr data: Ministry in charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA) rw.nisr.disaster-impact.annual annual

Disaster Impact by District.

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Event-level disaster impact compiled from the Rwanda Statistical Yearbook 2025, ENVIRONMENT sheet, Tables 5.8 and 5.9. Table 5.8 records deaths attributed to disasters and Table 5.9 records houses damaged or destroyed, both broken down by district and disaster event type (lightning, floods, landslides, mine disasters, fire, rainstorms, house collapse, strong wind, and others) across three reporting periods: 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024. Lightning was the single deadliest hazard, causing 273 deaths over the three years, ahead of mine disasters (179) and floods (161). The Ministry in charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA) is the source agency.

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Lightning is Rwanda's deadliest recorded natural hazard, causing 273 deaths from 2021 to 2024, ahead of mine disasters at 179 and floods at 161.

Deaths and houses damaged by disaster event · count · 2021 to 2024

SOURCE: Ministry in charge of Emergency Management (MINEMA) · via National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda · Disaster Impact by District · Updated 2026-07-03
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imibare contributors. (2026). Disaster Impact by District [Data set]. imibare. v2026-07-03. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.nisr.disaster-impact.annual