Argentina

What actually happens in Argentina

Built from 923 records collected between 9 August 2026 and 11 October 2026. These are detections, not occurrences: what our monitoring recorded, not everything that happened.

When

Incidents recorded by calendar month, all years combined. The tall months are when this country's risk concentrates — usually weather, sometimes a single large event.

MonthRecords
January 20
February 22
March 16
April 19
May 28
June 15
July 25
August 99
September 494
October 138
November 29
December 18

The busiest month on record is September. Before treating that as the dangerous month, check how many years the archive covers: a single severe season can create a peak on its own.

What

The types recorded most often here. The right-hand column is the important one — it marks the types that have no official real-time feed anywhere in the world, so those counts depend entirely on what local journalism reported.

TypeRecordsData source reality
Earthquake 550 Official feed exists
Wildfire 228 Official feed exists
Epidemic 49 Official feed exists
Fire 22 News-only — undercounted
Storm 18 Official feed exists
Explosion 17 News-only — undercounted
Road Accident 15 News-only — undercounted
Flood 14 Official feed exists
Gas Leak 4 News-only — undercounted
Drought 2 Official feed exists
Rail Accident 2 News-only — undercounted
Cyclone / Hurricane 1 Official feed exists
Maritime Accident 1 News-only — undercounted

How to read this without fooling yourself

  • Compare this country against its own history, not against another country. For the news-only types you would mostly be comparing newsroom density.
  • Earthquake counts are detection counts. Seismic networks record down to magnitudes nobody feels, so they dominate any raw ranking.
  • A quiet month is not a safe month. It can be a quiet news period, or a feed that was failing — which is why source health is public.
  • Casualties are not counted here unless an official source stated them.

Full method: how we track every incident on Earth. Per-type feed reality: what the world does not publish. Raw data: CSV and JSON, CC BY 4.0.

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