The following are lists of disasters.

Natural disasters

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the earth. These lists are of

disaster A disaster is a serious problem occurring over a short or long period of time that causes widespread human, material, economic or environmental loss which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources ...

s caused by forces of nature. *

List of avalanches This is an incomplete list of notable avalanches. See also *Avalanche *List of natural disasters by death toll References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Avalanches * Avalanches in the United States Death in the United Kingdom Dea ...

List of blizzards This is a list of blizzards, arranged alphabetically by continent. A blizzard is defined as a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least and lasting for three hours or more. The list states blizzards in various countries ...

List of derecho events The following is a list of derecho events. North America Europe South America Asia See also * Bow echo * Line echo wave pattern * List of deadliest Storm Prediction Center days by outlook risk level * List of microbursts * L ...

List of droughts This is a list of significant droughts, organized by large geographical area and then year. Africa *1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia *2012 Sahel drought *2011 East Africa drought * Malawian food crisis *Sahel drought *2010 Sahel famine * 2018–2 ...

Lists of earthquakes Earthquakes are caused by movements within the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle. They range from events too weak to be detectable except by sensitive instrumentation, to sudden and violent events lasting many minutes which have caused some of ...

List of environmental disasters This article is a list of environmental disasters. In this context it is an annotated list of specific events caused by human activity that results in a negative effect on the environment. Environmental disasters by category Agricultural * ...

List of fires This article is a list of notable fires. Town and city fires Building or structure fires Transportation fires Mining (including oil and natural gas drilling) fires This is a partial list of fire due to mining: man-made structures to extra ...

List of wildfires This is a list of notable wildfires. Asia China *1987 – The Black Dragon Fire started in China and burnt a total of of forest along the Amur river, with destroyed on the Chinese side. Hong Kong (Special Administrative Region of Chin ...

List of California wildfires This is a partial and incomplete list of California wildfires. California has dry, windy, and often hot weather conditions from spring through late autumn that can produce moderate to severe wildfires. Pre-1800, when the area was much more for ...

List of floods The following is a list of major floods. List of notable floods 20th century BC * Jishi Gorge outburst flood about 1920 BC 14th century * Saint Marcellus's flood a storm tide is also called the "Second St. Marcellus flood". * St. Mary ...

** History of flooding in Canada **

List of deadliest floods This is a list consisting of the deadliest floods worldwide with a minimum of 60 deaths. List Floods by year Only floods having caused 10 fatalities or more in 21st-century are listed. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2 ...

List of flash floods This list of notable flash flood A flash flood is a rapid flooding of low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and depressions. It may be caused by heavy rain associated with a severe thunderstorm, hurricane, or tropical storm, or ...

List of floods in the Netherlands This is a chronological list of sea-floods that have occurred in the Netherlands. In addition to these there have been hundreds of river floods during the centuries. See also * Flood control in the Netherlands References {{reflist Exter ...

List of floods in Pakistan A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

List of floods in Sheffield This is a list of floods in Sheffield, South Yorkshire'', England. Background Sheffield is located on the confluence of five major rivers (Don, Porter, Loxley, Rivelin, and the Sheaf), and is nestled in several hills. As a result, it is pro ...

List of heat waves This is a partial list of temperature phenomena that have been labeled as heat waves, listed in order of occurrence. Before 1901 * 1540 European drought - Extreme drought and heatwave lasting 11 months in Europe. * July 1757 heatwave – Euro ...

List of ice storms This is a list of notable ice storms. 1940s *Great Ice Storm of November 23–25, 1940. 1970s *Twin North Carolina Ice Storms of January 12–13 and 19-20, 1978 1990s *Western and Northern NY Ice Storm of March 3–4, 1991 *January 1998 Nort ...

* List of landslides * List of natural disasters by death toll *

List of solar storms Solar storms of different types are caused by disturbances on the Sun, most often from coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares from active regions, or, less often, from coronal holes. Minor to active solar storms (i.e. storming restricted ...

* Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks *

List of tropical cyclones This is a list of tropical cyclones, subdivided by basin. See the list of tropical cyclone records for individual records set by individual tropical cyclones. * Lists of Atlantic hurricanes – directory for Atlantic hurricanes north of the equ ...

List of historical tsunamis This article lists notable tsunamis, which are sorted by the date and location that the tsunami occurred. Because of seismic and volcanic activity associated with tectonic plate boundaries along the Pacific Ring of Fire, tsunamis occur most f ...

* List of volcanic eruptions ** List of large volcanic eruptions of the 19th century ** List of large volcanic eruptions of the 20th century ** List of large volcanic eruptions in the 21st century **

List of volcanic eruptions by death toll Volcanic eruptions can be highly explosive. Some volcanoes have undergone catastrophic eruptions, killing large numbers of humans or other life forms. This list documents volcanic eruptions by human death toll. Volcanic eruptions See also ...

Accidents

These are lists of disasters caused by

accident An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not directly caused by humans. The term ''accident'' implies that nobody should be blamed, but the event may have been caused by unrecognized or unaddressed risks. Most researcher ...

al human action. * List of accidents and disasters by death toll

Transport

* List of aviation accidents and incidents ** List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft **

Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft include all types of accident and incident, including mechanical failures, pilot error and military action. They include chronological lists, lists by conflict, lists by aircraft model an ...

** List of airship accidents **

List of ballooning accidents This is a list of ballooning accidents by date. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various accidents that involved manned balloons, such as Montgolfiere hot-air balloons, Charliere gas balloons, or de-Roziere gas and hot-air hybrid ...

** List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters *

List of elevator accidents This is a list of elevator accidents by death toll. It does not include accidents involving gondola lifts, ski lifts or similar types of cable transport. List Other notable accidents * On 14 December 1883, in one of the earliest documented elev ...

List of maritime disasters The list of maritime disasters is a link page for maritime disasters by century. For a unified list by death toll, see . Pre-18th century Peacetime disasters All ships are vulnerable to problems from weather conditions, faulty design or huma ...

List of shipwrecks This is an index of lists of shipwrecks, sorted by different criteria. By location * List of shipwrecks of Africa * List of shipwrecks of Asia * List of shipwrecks of Europe ** List of shipwrecks of France ** List of shipwrecks of the Uni ...

List of rail accidents This is the list of rail accident lists. Lists By year By type *By country * By death toll * Terrorist incidents See also * Classification of railway accidents * Derailment *Rail Transport * Train wreck A train wreck, train collision, ...

** List of tram accidents *

List of road accidents The following is a list of articles that contain a lists of traffic collisions, or list of people who died in traffic collisions. Lists of traffic collisions * List of traffic collisions (before 2000) *List of traffic collisions (2000–present) ...

* List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents

Industrial

* List of industrial disasters *

List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

List of structural failures and collapses This is a list of structural failures and collapses, including bridges, dams, and radio masts/towers. Buildings and other fixed human-made structures Antiquity to the Middle Ages 17th–19th centuries 1900–1949 1950-1979 1980–2000 ...

** List of bridge failures **

List of dam failures A dam failure or dam burst is a catastrophic type of structural failure characterized by the sudden, rapid, and uncontrolled release of impounded water or the likelihood of such an uncontrolled release. Between the years 2000 and 2009 more than ...

** List of levee failures ** List of mast and tower collapses ** List of modern infrastructure failures *

List of explosions This is a list of accidental explosions and facts about each one, grouped by the time of their occurrence. It does not include explosions caused by terrorist attacks or arson, as well as intentional explosions for civil or military purposes. It m ...

* List of mining disasters **

List of coal mining accidents in China This is a list of coal mining accidents in China. 1940s 1942 * On April 26, 1942, a gas and coal-dust explosion in Benxihu Colliery killed 1,549 miners, making it the worst disaster in the history of coal mining. 1950s 1950 * On Februa ...

List of gold mining disasters This is a list of gold mining disasters including environmental, such as those arising due to dam failure, cyanide leakage into the environment, as well as inappropriate environmental toxic waste discharge due to the gold cyanidation technique us ...

List of mining disasters in Lancashire This is a list of mining accidents in the historic county of Lancashire at which five or more people were killed. Mining deaths have occurred wherever coal has been mined across the Lancashire Coalfield. The earliest deaths were recorded in par ...

** List of mining disasters in Poland * Nuclear and radiation accidents **

Japanese nuclear incidents This is a list of Japanese atomic, nuclear and radiological accidents, incidents and disasters. List List of plants affected by 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami * Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant * Higashidōri Nuclear Power Plant * Tōkai ...

List of civilian radiation accidents This article lists notable civilian accidents involving radioactive materials or involving ionizing radiation from artificial sources such as x-ray tubes and particle accelerators. Accidents related to nuclear power that involve fissile materia ...

List of Chernobyl-related articles This is a list of Chernobyl-related articles. Disaster and effects * Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases ** Comparison of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents * Chernobyl disaster * Effects of the Chernobyl di ...

** List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll **

Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents. Main lists * List of attacks on nuclear plants * List of Chernobyl-related articles * List of civilian nuclear accidents * List of civilian radiation accidents * List of cr ...

** List of sunken nuclear submarines *

List of oil spills This is a reverse-chronological list of oil spills that have occurred throughout the world and spill(s) that are currently ongoing. Quantities are measured in tonnes of crude oil with one tonne roughly equal to 308 US gallons, 256 Imperial gallon ...

Health

* List of famines *

List of food contamination incidents Food may be accidentally or deliberately contaminated by microbiological, chemical or physical hazards. In contrast to microbiologically caused foodborne illness, the link between exposure and effect of chemical hazards in foods is usually complic ...

* List of epidemics * List of mass evacuations *

List of medicine contamination incidents The following list encompasses notable medicine contamination and adulteration incidents. *1937 Elixir sulfanilamide incident: S. E. Massengill Company used diethylene glycol as the solvent for the antibacterial sulfanilamide, leading to the 193 ...

List of methanol poisoning incidents Outbreaks of methanol poisoning have occurred when methanol is used to adulterate moonshine (bootleg liquor). Methanol is toxic to humans. If as little as 10 ml of pure methanol is ingested, for example, it can break down into formic acid, wh ...

Manmade

These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence. * List of amusement park accidents *

** List of building or structure fires ** List of circus fires ** List of hotel fires in the United States ** List of nightclub fires **

List of town and city fires This is a list of major urban conflagrations. Before the 20th century, fires were a major hazard to urban areas and the cause of massive amounts of damage to cities. For notable fires that involved a single structure, see list of building or st ...

List of transportation fires This is a list of transportation fires where a ship or other transportation has caught on fire. List of transportation fires Ship fires * 1800British warship — 673 deaths * 1807The slave ship — some 100 deaths * 1840Steamship '' Lexingt ...

List of fireworks accidents and incidents A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union ...

* List of man-made mass poisoning incidents * List of orphan radioactive source incidents *

List of massacres The following is a list of events for which one of the commonly accepted names includes the word "massacre". Definition ''Massacre'' is defined in the '' Oxford English Dictionary'' as "the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people ...

* List of crushes (almost all caused by failures of management) * List of military disasters *

List of riots This is a chronological list of known riots. Seventeenth century and earlier * 44 BC – Assassination of Julius Caesar (Rome, Roman Republic). During Caesar's cremation in the Forum, an incensed mob took firebrands from the pyre and attacked ...

List of terrorist incidents The following is a list of terrorist incidents that have not been carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Assassinations are listed at List of assassinated people. Definitions of terror ...

List of wars The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to war: War – organised and often prolonged armed conflict that is carried out by states or non-state actors – is characterised by extreme violence, social disruption ...

** List of battles and other violent events ** List of wars and anthropogenic disasters

Environmental hazard

List of power outages This is a list of notable wide-scale power outages. To be included, the power outage must conform to of the following criteria: * The outage must not be planned by the service provider. * The outage must affect at least 1k people. * The outage ...

* Pollution

By location

* List of disasters in Antarctica * List of disasters in Australia *

List of disasters in Canada This list of disasters in Canada includes major disasters (arranged by date), either man-made or natural, that occurred on Canadian soil. List Pre-1597 1597–1867 1867–1916 1917–1966 1970–2016 2017–present See also * Li ...

** List of disasters in Canada by death toll * List of disasters in Croatia * List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland * List of disasters in Haiti *

Lists of disasters in Indonesia This lists the list articles of disasters involving Indonesia List of lists * Indonesian tsunami, list of * List of disasters in Indonesia * List of earthquakes in Indonesia * List of natural disasters in Indonesia See also * List of volcanoe ...

List of disasters in Indonesia The following is a list of disasters in Indonesia that have had widespread effects or received substantial attention. It is split into natural and manmade disasters, which includes deliberate actions, and is further sorted by date. Natural disaste ...

List of earthquakes in Indonesia __NOTOC__ This is an incomplete list of more recent recorded major earthquakes that have occurred within the boundaries of Indonesia. The determinants of the activity are indicated by the geology of the region, and the volcanic activity. Large n ...

List of natural disasters in Indonesia Natural disasters in Indonesia can usefully be divided into major disasters, medium level disasters, and lesser disasters which although causing less damage are very common across Indonesia. These can conveniently be considered as macro, mezzo, an ...

* List of disasters in New Zealand ** List of natural disasters in New Zealand * List of disasters in Pakistan *

List of disasters in the Philippines This is a list of disasters in the Philippines. Astronomical phenomenon Pre-history Historical era Volcanic eruptions Pre-history * Most of the eruptions recorded from potentially active stratovolcano according to Rev. Andrei John Apostol, P ...

* List of disasters in Poland * List of disasters in South Korea *

List of disasters in Thailand Many disasters have occurred in Thailand, leading to loss of life and economic damages. Most natural disasters that have happened in the country are storm- and flood-related, while man-made disasters have also caused great losses. This page lists b ...

* List of disasters in the United States

Other

List of disasters by cost Disasters can have high costs associated with responding to and recovering from them. This page lists the estimated economic costs of relatively recent disasters. The costs of disasters vary considerably depending on a range of factors, such as t ...