Between 28 September – 5 October 2026, Global Incident Tracker recorded 31,191 incidents worldwide across 154 countries. Of these, 1,770 were rated severe or extreme. Overall volume was up 8% 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
- Fire — 4,898 recorded
- Flood — 4,802 recorded
- Wildfire — 4,757 recorded
- Storm — 3,864 recorded
- Earthquake — 3,689 recorded
- Epidemic — 2,651 recorded
- Explosion — 1,583 recorded
- Road Accident — 1,332 recorded
Fires led the week with 4,898 records. Most fire deaths are caused by smoke inhalation rather than flames, and a room can reach untenable conditions within a few minutes of ignition. Working smoke alarms and clear, unlocked exits remain the two measures that save the most lives.
Most affected countries
- Indonesia — 2,243 incidents
- United States — 2,050 incidents
- Brazil — 1,490 incidents
- Spain — 1,060 incidents
- Turkey — 812 incidents
- India — 750 incidents
- Mexico — 658 incidents
- France — 588 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
Tornado Warning — Potter, TX; Randall, TX
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Wed 30 Sep 2026 01:20 UTC. Read the full record →
M6.1 Earthquake — 14 km BaratDaya KODI-SUMBABARATDAYA-NTT
Extreme · Earthquake · Indonesia · Sat 3 Oct 2026 22:55 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Mitchell, KS
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Thu 1 Oct 2026 00:05 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Barton, KS
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Wed 30 Sep 2026 21:06 UTC. Read the full record →
M5.9 Earthquake — OFF EAST COAST OF KAMCHATKA
Extreme · Earthquake · Russia · Fri 2 Oct 2026 16:34 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Lincoln, KS; Russell, KS
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Wed 30 Sep 2026 22:57 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Randall, TX
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Wed 30 Sep 2026 00:39 UTC. Read the full record →
Tornado Warning — Lincoln, KS
Extreme · Tornado · United States · Thu 1 Oct 2026 00:09 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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