Between 21 September – 28 September 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 27,445 incidents worldwide across 156 countries. Of these, 1,478 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was up 5% 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 — 5,801 recorded
- Fire — 4,434 recorded
- Storm — 3,109 recorded
- Earthquake — 3,059 recorded
- Flood — 2,925 recorded
- Epidemic — 2,195 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,340 recorded
- Explosion — 1,291 recorded
Wildfires led the week with 5,801 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
- Indonesia — 1,768 incidents
- United States — 1,735 incidents
- Brazil — 1,373 incidents
- Angola — 962 incidents
- Mozambique — 781 incidents
- Turkey — 644 incidents
- India — 543 incidents
- Mexico — 496 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
M6.4 Earthquake — LOYALTY ISLANDS
Extreme · Earthquake · Vanuatu · Fri 25 Sep 2026 21:23 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Parmer, TX
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Sat 26 Sep 2026 03:21 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Curry, NM
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Sat 26 Sep 2026 02:17 UTC. Read the full record →
Local Area Emergency — Hamilton, TN
Extreme · Storm · United States · Fri 25 Sep 2026 16:56 UTC. Read the full record →
Flood outlook: Kosi at Supaul forecast 61% above its highest level in a year
Extreme · Flood · India · Mon 28 Sep 2026 00:00 UTC. Read the full record →
Extreme heat wave warning — Mapa 2 - Rojo, Paraguay
Extreme · Heat Wave · Paraguay · Sun 27 Sep 2026 06:00 UTC. Read the full record →
Extreme storm warning — Costa Centro, Ecuador
Extreme · Storm · Ecuador · Fri 25 Sep 2026 20:00 UTC. Read the full record →
Extreme storm warning — Costa y estribación Norte, Ecuador
Extreme · Storm · Ecuador · Fri 25 Sep 2026 20:00 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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