Between 26 October – 2 November 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 29,744 incidents worldwide across 158 countries. Of these, 939 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was down 17% 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 — 5,373 recorded
- Fire — 4,830 recorded
- Earthquake — 3,925 recorded
- Storm — 3,280 recorded
- Flood — 3,081 recorded
- Epidemic — 2,784 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,580 recorded
- Explosion — 1,320 recorded
Wildfires led the week with 5,373 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
- Brazil — 1,274 incidents
- Indonesia — 1,237 incidents
- United States — 1,196 incidents
- India — 973 incidents
- Turkey — 750 incidents
- Mexico — 617 incidents
- Australia — 485 incidents
- China — 469 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
M6.1 Earthquake — VANUATU
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Sun 1 Nov 2026 11:47 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.1 Earthquake — VANUATU
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Thu 29 Oct 2026 21:46 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.9 Earthquake — WEST CHILE RISE
Extreme · Earthquake · Thu 29 Oct 2026 07:49 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.7 Earthquake — 82 km NE of Kiunga, Papua New Guinea
Extreme · Earthquake · Papua New Guinea · Thu 29 Oct 2026 03:26 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.6 Earthquake — VANUATU
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Wed 28 Oct 2026 02:21 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.7 Earthquake — PHILIPPINE ISLANDS REGION
Extreme · Earthquake · Philippines · Thu 29 Oct 2026 03:19 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.8 Earthquake — VANUATU
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Tue 27 Oct 2026 08:55 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Kinney, TX
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Thu 29 Oct 2026 23:44 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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