Between 19 October – 26 October 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 34,626 incidents worldwide across 158 countries. Of these, 1,608 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was up 6% on 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 — 7,845 recorded
- Fire — 5,356 recorded
- Storm — 5,114 recorded
- Earthquake — 4,123 recorded
- Flood — 3,035 recorded
- Epidemic — 3,011 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,549 recorded
- Explosion — 1,264 recorded
Wildfires led the week with 7,845 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
- Indonesia — 1,939 incidents
- United States — 1,433 incidents
- Brazil — 1,306 incidents
- France — 1,226 incidents
- Germany — 1,051 incidents
- Australia — 950 incidents
- Mozambique — 820 incidents
- Turkey — 743 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 — Coconino, AZ
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Wed 21 Oct 2026 12:19 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.9 Earthquake — XIZANG-QINGHAI BORDER REGION
Extreme · Earthquake · China · Sun 25 Oct 2026 11:25 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.2 Earthquake — 21 km E of Port-Olry, Vanuatu
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Sun 25 Oct 2026 02:24 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.3 Earthquake — BONIN ISLANDS, JAPAN REGION
Extreme · Earthquake · Japan · Sun 25 Oct 2026 02:09 UTC. Read the full record →
Blizzard Warning — Shishmaref; Bering Strait Coast
Extreme · Cold Wave · United States · Fri 23 Oct 2026 04:41 UTC. Read the full record →
Blizzard Warning — Southern Seward Peninsula Coast
Extreme · Cold Wave · United States · Fri 23 Oct 2026 04:41 UTC. Read the full record →
Blizzard Warning — Interior Seward Peninsula
Extreme · Cold Wave · United States · Fri 23 Oct 2026 04:41 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.2 Earthquake — VANUATU
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Tue 20 Oct 2026 04:20 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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