Super Typhoon Fung-wong, locally called Uwan, made landfall on the northeastern coast of Luzon on the night of Nov. 9, 2025, bringing sustained winds of about 185 kph (115 mph) and gusts reaching 230 kph. Forecast agencies said the storm’s wind and rain field was wide enough to cover most of Luzon and to affect parts of the Visayas, making it the largest system to hit the Philippines in 2025.

The typhoon came ashore at Dinalungan in Aurora province after spending much of Sunday battering Catanduanes, Bicol, and the eastern seaboard with near-zero visibility rain and power interruptions. Officials warned in advance of storm surge of up to 3 meters along exposed coasts, including areas near Metro Manila.

Fung-wong arrived less than a week after Typhoon Kalmaegi, which had already caused heavy casualties and infrastructure damage in central provinces. Authorities said the back-to-back impact was a major reason they raised the highest storm signal over parts of southeastern Luzon earlier than usual.

Evacuations and displacement

Philippine disaster officials said more than 1 million people left their homes before landfall, moving either into government shelters or to the houses of relatives in safer areas. Subsequent tallies on Monday showed that the total number of people displaced or temporarily sheltered climbed to about 1.4 million as flooding persisted inland. This made Fung-wong one of the most displacing typhoons in the country since Haiyan in 2013.

Evacuations were heaviest in Bicol, Aurora, Isabela, and low-lying towns facing the Pacific, where local governments had ordered residents to leave by Sunday morning. The Coast Guard released images of families being ferried from coastal barangays in Camarines and Quezon provinces to waiting military trucks ahead of the storm’s strongest winds.

Officials said the preemptive evacuations worked as intended: most of the people later recorded as displaced had already been moved out before floodwaters rose or roofs were torn off. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said the policy was to move people off flood- and landslide-prone terrain “before it becomes impossible to rescue them,” a message repeated on national television the day before landfall.

Damage, casualties, and disruptions

Early reports listed at least two deaths linked to the typhoon: one person drowned in Catanduanes and another was struck by debris in Eastern Samar. Authorities said the number was relatively low compared with the storm’s size because of early evacuations, but they cautioned that counts could change as isolated areas reopened and local governments submitted full reports.

Landslides and fallen trees made several towns in Aurora and Isabela temporarily inaccessible. Local officials reported damaged homes, damaged roofs, and toppled power lines—typical of high-wind strikes on Luzon’s eastern coast. More than 300 domestic and international flights were canceled across the weekend, seaports were closed to small vessels, and tens of thousands of passengers were stranded. Power outages were reported in Catanduanes, parts of Bicol, and scattered towns in eastern Luzon.

Flooding was the immediate concern inland. At least 132 villages in northern Luzon experienced flood conditions, including cases where residents climbed to roofs to await rescue. The Office of Civil Defense said clearing operations would begin as soon as rainfall bands moved westward toward the South China Sea.

Government response and coordination

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. kept in place the nationwide state of emergency he had declared days earlier in response to Typhoon Kalmaegi, allowing agencies to draw on emergency funds and to fast-track procurement of relief goods for areas now hit by Fung-wong. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council said food packs, water, temporary shelter materials, and generators were prepositioned in Luzon before the storm.

Military and Coast Guard units were deployed to conduct forced evacuations in localities that had not fully complied with orders to move. Officials said the United States and Japan had indicated readiness to assist if requested, but the Philippines had not yet made a formal international appeal, focusing first on internal assets and on reopening blocked roads.

Education and local government offices in northern and eastern regions were ordered closed for at least two days to allow inspections of buildings and to keep people off the roads while debris was being cleared. Aviation and port authorities said normal operations would resume in phases, depending on damage assessments.

Context in a severe typhoon season

Fung-wong was the 21st storm to affect the Philippines in 2025 and arrived while communities were still recovering from Kalmaegi, which killed more than 200 people and destroyed homes in Cebu and other central provinces. That prior devastation explains why nearly a million people obeyed evacuation orders before the second typhoon arrived—residents were already aware of this season’s risks.

Forecasters noted that Fung-wong’s rain and wind band was unusually wide—up to 1,800 kilometers according to some estimates—meaning as many as 30 million people could experience some form of hazard from the system, whether coastal surge, river flooding, or damaging winds. The storm weakened after crossing Luzon and then moved toward the South China Sea, but officials said residual rains could still trigger landslides even after the eye had passed.

In factual terms, the November 2025 typhoon can be summarized this way: a super typhoon with 185 kph sustained winds struck Luzon on Nov. 9; more than 1 million people were displaced, rising to about 1.4 million as reports came in; at least two deaths were confirmed; air and sea travel were widely suspended; and the government, already on emergency footing because of an earlier storm, mobilized to clear roads, restore power, and support evacuees.