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 * List of droughts *

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 *

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 f ...

* List of floods **

History of flooding in Canada The history of flooding in Canada includes floods caused by snowmelt runoff or freshet flooding, storm-rainfall and "flash flooding", ice jams during ice formation and spring break-up, natural dams, coastal flooding on ocean or lake coasts from stor ...

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 floods summarizes the most widely reported events. See also * List of deadliest floods * List of major dam failures * 2021 European floods In July 2021, several European countries were affected by severe fl ...

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 Extern ...

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 uni ...

** List of floods in Sheffield * List of heat waves *

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 This list of landslides is a list of notable landslides and mudflows divided into sections by date and type. This list is very incomplete as there is no central catalogue for landslides, although some for individual countries/areas do exist. Volu ...

* 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 These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred around the globe. # ''Exact death and injury counts are not possible; especially for large events and events before 1955.'' # ''Prior to 1950 in ...

* List of tropical cyclones * List of historical tsunamis * 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 This is a list of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century with a Volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 4 or higher, and smaller eruptions that resulted in fatalities, significant damage or disruptions. See also *List of volcanic eruptions 1500–1 ...

** List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

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 researche ...

al human action. *

List of accidents and disasters by death toll This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions, structural fires, flood disasters, coal mine disasters, and other notable accidents caused by the effects of neglig ...

Transport

* List of aviation accidents and incidents **

List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article. Entries in this list involve passenger or cargo aircraft that are operating commercially and meet this list ...

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 The following is a partial list of airship accidents. It should be stated that rigid airships operate differently than blimps which have no rigid structure. See also * List of ballooning accidents References {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Ai ...

** List of ballooning accidents ** List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters * List of elevator accidents *

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 *

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 * Tram accident A tram accident is ...

List of tram accidents This is a worldwide list of accidents involving trams (or streetcars in U.S. English) in which there was significant damage to the tramcar, or involving severe injury or death to those in the tramcar. Pedestrian fatalities are outside the scope ...

* List of road accidents *

List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human fatality or near-fatality during flight or training for crewed space missions, and testing, assembly, preparation or flight of crewed and robotic space ...

Industrial

List of industrial disasters This article lists notable industrial disasters, which are disasters caused by industrial companies, either by accident, negligence or incompetence. They are a form of industrial accident where great damage, injury or loss of life are caused. ...

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 unio ...

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 This is a list of bridge failures. Before 1800 1800–1899 1900–1949 1950–1999 2000–present Bridge disasters in fiction * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005 novel): the fictional Brockdale Bridge, by the Death Eaters ( ...

** List of dam failures ** List of levee failures ** List of mast and tower collapses ** List of modern infrastructure failures * List of explosions * List of mining disasters ** List of coal mining accidents in China ** List of gold mining disasters **

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 **

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 ...

List of sunken nuclear submarines Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy has lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two. Three were lost with all hands - the two from the United Sta ...

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 This is a list of famines. List See also Main article lists * Bengal famine * Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union * Famine in India * Famines in Czechia * Famines in Ethiopia * Great Bengal famine of 1770 * Great Fam ...

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 explosions *

List of building or structure fires This is a list of building or structure fires where a building or structure has caught fire. For major urban conflagrations, see List of town and city fires. __NOTOC__ Antiquity through Middle Ages * 586 BCFirst Temple in Jerusalem burned b ...

** List of circus fires **

List of hotel fires in the United States The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has documented several dozen hotel fires in the United States since the 1930s that have killed more than ten people each, deeming these incidents to be fires of historical note. The Winecoff Hotel f ...

List of nightclub fires This is a list of notable nightclub fires at indoor and outdoor venues. Many involve pyrotechnic failures. See also * List of fires This article is a list of notable fires. Town and city fires Building or structure fires Transportation ...

** List of town and city fires ** List of transportation fires *

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 unio ...

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

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 terroris ...

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, a ...

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

Environmental hazard

* List of power outages *

Pollution Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change. Pollution can take the form of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or energy (such as radioactivity, heat, sound, or light). Pollutants, the ...

By location

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

List of disasters in Canada by death toll This list of Canadian disasters by death toll includes major disasters (excluding acts of war) that occurred on Canadian soil or involved Canadian citizens, in a definable incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more. 200 or more deaths 10 ...

* List of disasters in Croatia *

List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland The following list of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland is a list of major disasters (excluding acts of war) which relate to the United Kingdom or Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlanti ...

* List of disasters in Haiti * Lists of disasters in Indonesia ** List of disasters in Indonesia ** List of earthquakes in Indonesia ** List of natural disasters in Indonesia * List of disasters in New Zealand **

List of natural disasters in New Zealand This list of natural disasters in New Zealand documents notable natural disasters and epidemics that have occurred in New Zealand since 1843. Of these natural disasters, the 1918 flu pandemic resulted in the highest loss of life with 8,600 deaths ...

* List of disasters in Pakistan * List of disasters in the Philippines * List of disasters in Poland * List of disasters in South Korea * List of disasters in Thailand * 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 ...