Lists of disasters
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 disasters caused by forces of nature.
- List of avalanches
- List of blizzards
- List of derecho events
- List of droughts
- Lists of earthquakes
- List of fires
- List of floods
- List of heat waves
- List of ice storms
- List of landslides
- List of natural disasters by death toll
- List of solar storms
- Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
- Outline of tropical cyclones
- List of tsunamis
- List of large volcanic eruptions
Accidents
These are lists of disasters caused by accidental human action.
Transport
- List of aviation accidents and incidents
- List of elevator accidents
- List of maritime disasters
- List of rail accidents
- List of road accidents
- List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
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 explosions
- List of mining disasters
- Nuclear and radiation accidents
- List of oil spills
Health
- List of famines
- List of food contamination incidents
- List of epidemics and pandemics
- List of mass evacuations
- List of medicine contamination incidents
- List of methanol poisoning incidents
The National Risk Index is a dataset and online tool to help illustrate the United States communities most at risk for 18 hazard types: Avalanche, Coastal Flooding, Cold Wave, Drought, Earthquake, Hail, Heat Wave, Hurricane, Ice Storm, Landslide, Lightning, Riverine Flooding, Strong Wind, Tornado, Tsunami, Volcanic Activity, Wildfire, and Winter Weather.
It was designed and built by FEMA in close collaboration with various stakeholders and partners in academia; local, state, and federal governments; and private industry. The Risk Index leverages available source data for natural hazard and community risk factors to develop a baseline relative risk measurement for each United States county and Census tract. The National Risk Index is intended to help users better understand the natural hazard risk of their communities.
Manmade
These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence.
- List of amusement park accidents
- List of environmental disasters
- List of explosions
- List of fires
- List of fireworks accidents and incidents
- List of man-made mass poisoning incidents
- List of orphan radioactive source incidents
- List of crushes (almost all caused by failures of management)
- List of military disasters
- List of riots
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of wars
Environmental hazard
By location
- List of disasters in Antarctica
- List of disasters in Australia
- List of disasters in Canada
- List of disasters in Croatia
- List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland
- List of disasters in Haiti
- Lists of disasters in Indonesia
- List of disasters in New Zealand
- 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
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