 According to newspaper reports, 100 Vietnamese perished during Hester. Thirty-three fatalities took place after a South Vietnamese air force transport crashed near Quy Nhơn. Thee Americans were killed due to flying debris during the storm and twenty-one others were injured. On October 25, thunderstorms associated with Hester were blamed on a helicopter crash Nha Trang that killed ten Americans. Roughly 550,000 homes were destroyed across the country, leaving an estimated 200,000 people homeless.
