Between 2 November – 9 November 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 33,916 incidents worldwide across 166 countries. Of these, 1,252 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was up 10% 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 — 7,121 recorded
- Fire — 4,993 recorded
- Earthquake — 4,498 recorded
- Storm — 4,062 recorded
- Flood — 3,389 recorded
- Epidemic — 2,683 recorded
- Explosion — 1,385 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,368 recorded
Wildfires led the week with 7,121 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 — 1,696 incidents
- United States — 1,373 incidents
- Indonesia — 1,343 incidents
- Poland — 1,172 incidents
- Australia — 1,132 incidents
- India — 976 incidents
- Turkey — 738 incidents
- South Sudan — 695 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 — Bossier, LA; Caddo, LA
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Tue 3 Nov 2026 16:27 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.2 Earthquake — OFF EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
Extreme · Earthquake · Japan · Fri 6 Nov 2026 10:39 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Watch — Atoka, OK; Bryan, OK; Coal, OK; Hughes, OK; Johnston, OK; Marshall, OK; Pontotoc, OK; Seminole, OK
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Tue 3 Nov 2026 01:39 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Wayne, NC
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Fri 6 Nov 2026 19:11 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Watch — Benton, AR; Crawford, AR; Sebastian, AR; Washington, AR; Adair, OK; Cherokee, OK; Choctaw, OK; Craig, OK; Delaware, OK;
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Tue 3 Nov 2026 05:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Watch — Chautauqua, KS; Labette, KS; Montgomery, KS
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Tue 3 Nov 2026 01:33 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Texas, OK
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 2 Nov 2026 05:37 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Sampson, NC
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Fri 6 Nov 2026 18:20 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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