Between 14 September – 21 September 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 24,843 incidents worldwide across 163 countries. Of these, 1,653 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was down 15% on the previous week.
Every figure below is generated directly from our live database and links to the individual incident records. Counts reflect detected events, not casualties or damage.
What happened most
- Wildfire — 8,023 recorded
- Fire — 3,086 recorded
- Storm — 2,799 recorded
- Earthquake — 2,591 recorded
- Flood — 2,104 recorded
- Epidemic — 1,888 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,047 recorded
- Explosion — 839 recorded
Wildfires led the week with 8,023 records. Wildfire behaviour is driven by three things: fuel (dry vegetation), weather (heat, low humidity, wind) and terrain. Wind shifts are what most often turn a controlled perimeter into an emergency, which is why evacuation orders can change very quickly.
Most affected countries
- United States — 1,758 incidents
- Mozambique — 1,709 incidents
- Brazil — 1,396 incidents
- Indonesia — 1,231 incidents
- Zambia — 1,197 incidents
- Angola — 1,015 incidents
- DR Congo — 705 incidents
- Mexico — 529 incidents
High counts often reflect a combination of genuine hazard exposure, population density and strong local media coverage — countries with active reporting surface more small incidents than countries where local news is sparse.
Notable incidents this week
M6.3 Earthquake — EASTERN NEW GUINEA REG., P.N.G.
Extreme · Earthquake · Papua New Guinea · Sun 20 Sep 2026 09:17 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.5 Earthquake — 165 km W of Nikolski, Alaska
Extreme · Earthquake · Thu 17 Sep 2026 14:19 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Fremont, IA; Cass, NE; Otoe, NE
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 14 Sep 2026 23:48 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Richland, IL
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 21 Sep 2026 01:00 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Clay, IL; Richland, IL
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 21 Sep 2026 00:39 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Clay, IL
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 21 Sep 2026 00:29 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Clay, IL
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 21 Sep 2026 00:16 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Butler, OH; Warren, OH
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Mon 21 Sep 2026 00:02 UTC. Read the full record →
How this report is produced
This recap is generated automatically each week from the incidents recorded by our monitoring — twenty-four data streams including the USGS and EMSC seismic networks, GDACS (UN), NASA EONET and FIRMS satellite observations, WHO outbreak bulletins, the US National Weather Service, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, GDELT news monitoring, and our own rotating per-country sweep of local-language media. Duplicate reports of the same event from different sources are merged into a single record.
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