Between 5 October – 12 October 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 33,896 incidents worldwide across 162 countries. Of these, 2,418 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was broadly level with the previous week.
Every figure below is generated directly from our live database and links to the individual incident records. Counts reflect detected events, not casualties or damage.
What happened most
- Wildfire — 6,921 recorded
- Fire — 5,081 recorded
- Earthquake — 4,445 recorded
- Storm — 3,722 recorded
- Epidemic — 2,996 recorded
- Flood — 2,989 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,448 recorded
- Cyclone / Hurricane — 1,365 recorded
Wildfires led the week with 6,921 records. Wildfire behaviour is driven by three things: fuel (dry vegetation), weather (heat, low humidity, wind) and terrain. Wind shifts are what most often turn a controlled perimeter into an emergency, which is why evacuation orders can change very quickly.
Most affected countries
- United States — 2,542 incidents
- Indonesia — 2,257 incidents
- Brazil — 2,197 incidents
- Mozambique — 990 incidents
- Turkey — 863 incidents
- Panama — 659 incidents
- India — 657 incidents
- Mexico — 608 incidents
High counts often reflect a combination of genuine hazard exposure, population density and strong local media coverage — countries with active reporting surface more small incidents than countries where local news is sparse.
Notable incidents this week
Tornado Warning — Barnwell, SC
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Sat 10 Oct 2026 20:30 UTC. Read the full record →
Hurricane Warning — Escambia Coastal
Extreme · Cyclone / Hurricane · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Hurricane Warning — Santa Rosa Inland
Extreme · Cyclone / Hurricane · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Storm Surge Warning — Baldwin Coastal
Extreme · Storm · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Hurricane Warning — Baldwin Inland
Extreme · Cyclone / Hurricane · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Hurricane Warning — Santa Rosa Coastal
Extreme · Cyclone / Hurricane · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Hurricane Warning — Conecuh
Extreme · Cyclone / Hurricane · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Hurricane Warning — Baldwin Central
Extreme · Cyclone / Hurricane · United States · Fri 9 Oct 2026 02:57 UTC. Read the full record →
How this report is produced
This recap is generated automatically each week from the incidents recorded by our monitoring — twenty-four data streams including the USGS and EMSC seismic networks, GDACS (UN), NASA EONET and FIRMS satellite observations, WHO outbreak bulletins, the US National Weather Service, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, GDELT news monitoring, and our own rotating per-country sweep of local-language media. Duplicate reports of the same event from different sources are merged into a single record.
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