Republic of the Congo

What actually happens in Republic of the Congo

Built from 296 records collected between 9 August 2026 and 9 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 0
February 1
March 0
April 0
May 3
June 3
July 2
August 15
September 241
October 30
November 0
December 1

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
Wildfire 242 Official feed exists
Epidemic 47 Official feed exists
Air Crash 2 News-only — undercounted
Fire 2 News-only — undercounted
Road Accident 1 News-only — undercounted
Maritime Accident 1 News-only — undercounted
Drought 1 Official feed exists

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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