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Disasters in numbers

As of 2 November 2026, the latest complete monthly report covers October 2026, when Global Incident Tracker recorded 88,505 records of disasters, accidents and other events worldwide, from official feeds and news reports.

Read October 2026 Most severe of 2026 Statistics

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Month	Events recorded	Status
November 2026	4,774	In progress
October 2026	88,505	Settling
September 2026	63,484	Final
August 2026	7,076	Final

2026 so farHow many of each, this year

Fires 40,589 Earthquakes 30,248 Epidemics and outbreaks 22,684 Floods 17,195 Storms 12,422 Road accidents 11,912 Explosions 11,902 Wildfires 5,863 Plane crashes 4,512 Building collapses 4,193 Droughts 2,973 Maritime accidents 2,902 Landslides 2,460 Cyclones and hurricanes 2,286 Shootings 1,764 Gas leaks 1,569 Train accidents 1,228 Conflict events 1,013 Volcanic eruptions 650 Drowning incidents 612 Riots and unrest 438 Bridge collapses 363 Terror attacks 344 Mining accidents 325 Avalanches 256 Stampedes 255 Industrial accidents 207 Heat waves 156 Tornadoes 155 Tsunamis 143 Power outages 122 Chemical spills 44 Cyber attacks 39 Cold waves 29 Nuclear incidents 24 Famines and food crises 12

QuestionsAbout the reports

How often is a report published?

One report per calendar month. The current month updates every six hours and is marked "so far"; a month is final a few days after it ends, once late reports have arrived.

Can I republish these figures?

Yes. The figures are published under CC BY 4.0: quote or republish them, including commercially, with credit to Global Incident Tracker and a link to the report.

What does a report count?

Events recorded by Global Incident Tracker by the date they happened (UTC), after duplicate reports were merged. Official weather and hazard warnings are counted separately, never as events.

What these reports show, and what they miss

Show: what Global Incident Tracker recorded each month: events by family, type and country, the most severe events, and how many official warnings were issued alongside.

Miss: anything no source reported. Accidents, outbreaks and unrest reach us through news, so their counts are a floor. A rise from one month to the next can mean a source was added rather than more events happened. Severity is not a death toll.

How to cite this

Suggested citation:

Global Incident Tracker (2026). Disasters in numbers: monthly reports. Data as of 2 November 2026. https://globalincidenttracker.com/reports (CC BY 4.0)

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: every record as CSV or JSON.