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How many stampedes in 2026?

As of 2 November 2026, Global Incident Tracker has recorded 255 news-sourced records of stampedes in 2026 (records begin on 9 August 2026); the most were in India (152). One incident can be reported more than once, so this is not a count of separate stampedes.

No agency anywhere publishes a live feed of stampedes, so every record here comes from news reports. Read the number as a floor, not a total.

Download CSV Live stampedes tracker Most severe of 2026

2026Month by month

MonthRecordedSevere or extreme
January 0 0 before records began
February 0 0 before records began
March 0 0 before records began
April 0 0 before records began
May 0 0 before records began
June 0 0 before records began
July 0 0 before records began
August 2 0
September 35 0
October 206 0
November 12 so far 0
December ——
Total2550

Severity, then number of reportsThe 10 most severe stampedes of 2026

Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 18 Oct 2026 · 10 reports · News report Kolkata pandal stampede LIVE | At least 19 dead, 25 others injured; sitting HC judge to probe incident Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 17 Oct 2026 · 7 reports · News report At least 17 killed in Kolkata Durga Puja stampede: media reports Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 17 Oct 2026 · 5 reports · News report Kolkata stampede LIVE updates: Organisers among 7 arrested, SIT probe announced; TMC blames ‘failure of administration’ Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 18 Oct 2026 · 4 reports · News report Kolkata Durga Puja pandal stampede kills 19, organisers detained, TMC targets BJP | Top updates Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush 13 Oct 2026 · 4 reports · News report Stampede take advantage of fast start to blast Lincoln Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 18 Oct 2026 · 3 reports · News report Kolkata Durga Puja stampede toll rises to 19; sitting HC judge to probe incident Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 17 Oct 2026 · 3 reports · News report Kolkata pandal stampede LIVE | At least 17 dead in stampede at north Kolkata community Durga Puja pandal; PM Announces ₹2 lakh for the dead Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 17 Oct 2026 · 3 reports · News report 13 Women, 1 Child Among 17 Killed In Kolkata Durga Puja Pandal Stampede Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 17 Oct 2026 · 3 reports · News report Kolkata stampede LIVE: 18 dead in Chorbagan incident; PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee express condolences Moderate Stampede / Crowd Crush in India 17 Oct 2026 · 3 reports · News report At least 17 killed in stampede at a religious festival in India's Kolkata, NDTV reports Moderate

Ranked by this site's severity signal, then by how many separate reports reached us. Neither is a death toll.

2026Countries with the most stampedes

#CountryRecordedSevere or extreme
1 India 1520
2 DR Congo 50
3 Pakistan 40
4 Niger 30
5 Turkey 20
6 Nigeria 20
7 South Korea 10
8 Thailand 10
9 Colombia 10
10 Saudi Arabia 10

Recorded in 10 countries. Events at sea or without a location are not in this table.

QuestionsAbout this count

How many stampedes have there been in 2026?
As of 2 November 2026, Global Incident Tracker has recorded 255 news-sourced records of stampedes in 2026 (records begin on 9 August 2026); the most were in India (152). One incident can be reported more than once, so this is not a count of separate stampedes. No agency anywhere publishes a live feed of stampedes, so every record here comes from news reports. Read the number as a floor, not a total.
Which country has had the most stampedes in 2026?
India, with 152 stampedes recorded by Global Incident Tracker in 2026. In all, 255 stampedes were recorded across 10 countries. Countries with more reporting or denser monitoring show more records.
Which month of 2026 had the most stampedes?
October, with 206 stampedes recorded. The table on this page gives every month; months before 9 August 2026 hold only a few back-dated records.
Is this the official number of stampedes?
No. It is the number recorded by Global Incident Tracker from news reports, after merging duplicate reports and leaving out warnings. No official body counts stampedes worldwide, in real time or later.

How to cite this

Suggested citation:

Global Incident Tracker (2026). Stampedes recorded in 2026. Data as of 2 November 2026. https://globalincidenttracker.com/2026/stampedes (CC BY 4.0)

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Data & methodology

  • Licence: CC BY 4.0 — free to reuse, including commercially, with credit and a link. Upstream sources keep their own terms (listed here).
  • What is counted: records of events by the date they happened (UTC), after duplicate reports were merged. Official warnings are counted separately, never as events. How records are sourced and checked.
  • What is missing: types with no official feed exist here only because news reported them, so their counts are a floor, not a total. Coverage by type.
  • Not a death toll: severity is this site’s monitoring signal, not an official damage or casualty assessment.
  • Download: this page as CSV · every record as CSV or JSON.

Counts compiled by Global Incident Tracker and published under CC BY 4.0. Upstream records keep their own terms: USGS, NOAA and NASA data are US public domain; GDACS is free to reuse with attribution; headlines belong to their publishers. Every record of this type, warnings included: full CSV.