The following are lists of disasters.

Natural disasters

natural disaster A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community brought by natural phenomenon or Hazard#Natural hazard, hazard. Some examples of natural hazards include avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, heat waves, landslides ...

is the highly harmful impact on a

society A society () is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations. ...

community A community is a social unit (a group of people) with a shared socially-significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity. Communities may share a sense of place situated in a given g ...

following a natural

hazard A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would potentially allow them to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value. The probability of that ...

event. These lists are lists of natural disasters: * List of avalanches * List of blizzards * List of derecho events * List of droughts *

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

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: human-made structures to ex ...

** List of wildfires **

List of California wildfires This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. 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 a ...

* List of floods ** History of flooding in Canada ** List of deadliest floods ** List of flash floods ** List of floods in the Netherlands ** List of floods in Pakistan ** List of floods in Sheffield * List of heat waves * List of ice storms * List of landslides *

List of natural disasters by death toll A natural disaster is a sudden event that causes widespread destruction, major collateral damage, or loss of life, brought about by forces other than the acts of human beings. A natural disaster might be caused by earthquakes, flooding, volcani ...

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 restrict ...

* Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks * Lists of retired tropical cyclone names * List of historical tropical cyclone names * Outline of tropical cyclones * List of tsunamis * List of large volcanic eruptions ** List of volcanic eruptions 1500–2000 ** List of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century ** List of volcanic eruptions by death toll

Disasters caused by accidental human action

These are lists of disasters caused by

accident An accident is an unintended, normally unwanted event that was not deliberately caused by humans. The term ''accident'' implies that the event may have been caused by Risk assessment, unrecognized or unaddressed risks. Many researchers, insurers ...

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 negligence connected ...

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 airship accidents ** 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 of peacetime disasters by death toll, see . Pre-18th century Peacetime disasters All ships are vulnerable to problems from weather conditions ...

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 United ...

** List of boiler explosions * List of rail accidents ** List of boiler explosions ** List of tram accidents ** List of tanker explosions * List of road accidents ** List of tanker explosions *

List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury. These include incidents during flight or training for crewed space missions and testing, assembly, preparation, or flight of ...

Industrial

* List of industrial disasters * List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States * List of structural failures and collapses **

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 *''The General (1926 film), The General'' (1926 film): The fictional Rock River bridge, a wooden trestl ...

** List of dam failures ** List of levee failures ** List of mast and tower collapses ** List of modern infrastructure failures * List of explosions ** List of boiler explosions ** List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) * List of major power outages * List of mining disasters ** List of coal mining accidents in China **

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 gold ...

List of mining disasters in Lancashire This is a list of mining accidents in the historic counties of England, 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 earlies ...

** List of mining disasters in Poland *

Nuclear and radiation accidents A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility." Examples include radiation poisoning, lethal effect ...

** Japanese nuclear incidents ** List of civilian radiation accidents ** List of Chernobyl-related articles ** 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 nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents * List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll * List of civilian nuclear accidents * List o ...

** List of sunken nuclear submarines * List of oil spills

Health

List of famines List Table See also Main article lists * Bengal famine (disambiguation), Bengal famine * Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union * Famine in India * Famines in the Czech lands * Famines in Ethiopia * Great Bengal famine ...

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 comp ...

* List of epidemics and pandemics * List of mass evacuations * List of medicine contamination incidents * List of methanol poisoning incidents

Disasters caused by deliberate human action

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

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 (biophysical), environment. Environmental disasters by c ...

* List of explosions ** List of boiler explosions ** List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE) ** List of tanker explosions *

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

List of nightclub fires This is a list of notable nightclub fires at indoor and outdoor venues. Deadly nightclub fires often attribute to pyrotechnic failures, hence some of the list also feature in the List of fireworks accidents and incidents. See also * List of fire ...

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

List of fireworks accidents and incidents This is a list of fireworks accidents and incidents, including pyrotechnics fire and explosion. The list is sortable by casualties and date. See also * List of accidents and disasters by death toll * List of industrial disasters * List of ni ...

* List of man-made mass poisoning incidents * List of orphan radioactive source incidents * List of crushes * List of military disasters * List of riots *

List of terrorist incidents The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Assassinations are presented in List of assassinations and unsuccessful attempts at List o ...

* List of wars **

List of wars by death toll This list of wars by death toll includes all deaths directly or indirectly caused by the deadliest war, wars in history. These numbers encompass the deaths of military personnel resulting directly from battles or other wartime actions, as well as ...

By location

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 death ...

* List of disasters in Pakistan * List of disasters in the Philippines * List of disasters in Poland * List of disasters in Singapore * List of disasters in South Korea **

List of man-made disasters in South Korea This is a partial list of man-made disasters in South Korea since the Korean War. It includes events that have a Wikipedia entry and other events mentioned in a reputable source. References

{{Disasters Man-made disasters in South Korea ...

* List of disasters in Spain * List of disasters in Sweden * List of disasters in Switzerland * List of disasters in Taiwan * 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 ...

* List of engineering blunders {{DEFAULTSORT:Disasters