EMERCOM counted victims of emergencies six times more than in 2025
The number of victims in emergency situations in Russia for the first nine months of 2026 exceeded 1.14 million people – this is more than six times higher than in the same period last year, follows from the data of the Ministry of Emergency Situations
In Russia in January-September 2026 in emergency situations affected 1.14 million people. Such data were published in the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS).
Compared to the same period last year, the indicator increased by more than six times: for the first nine months of 2025, about 190 thousand people were affected in emergencies.
In January-March 2026, as a result of emergency situations, 6.2 thousand people suffered, and by the end of June the figure reached 845.2 thousand. For comparison, for the first half of 2025, 140.7 thousand victims were listed in the statistics. The number of emergencies increased from 42 to 52 and from 115 to 146, respectively.
In total, in 2025, 266 emergency situations were registered in Russia, in which 337.1 thousand people were affected.
At the same time, the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Kommersant that in January-September 2026, 247 emergency situations were recorded in Russia. The Ministry explained the sharp increase in the number of victims of accidents at life support facilities in Engels, Saratov region in May and in Sevastopol in June.
In the first case, the emergency mode was introduced due to a major accident at the sewer, in the second - due to damage to electricity facilities, the publication notes. According to the ministry, a total of 822,000 people were injured as a result of these incidents.
Another factor was the federal emergencies in Chechnya and Dagestan in the spring of 2026. In March and April, the regions faced heavy rainfall, flooding and flooding, which damaged homes, land, schools and hospitals. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, due to a complex of adverse weather events, living conditions were violated in more than 158.5 thousand people.
In September, the Emergencies Ministry developed a bill that gives regional departments the authority to coordinate the introduction of emergency and high readiness regimes. At the same time, the ministry cited data according to which from 2023 to 2025, 836 emergencies occurred in Russia, but the state of emergency was introduced more than 880 times. The department considered that this indicates cases of unjustified announcement of such regimes, including due to fires in residential buildings, the descent of soil on the road and disconnection of cold water.
The authors of the initiative indicated that the amendments will reduce the risk of misuse of budget funds. In addition, the bill proposes to enshrine in the legislation the concept of “the threat of an emergency situation” and determine the criteria by which it will be distinguished from an already occurred emergency. At the time of preparation of the publication, the initiative is at the stage of summing up the results of the public discussion of the text of the normative legal act (NPA).
