Egypt

What actually happens in Egypt

Built from 108 records collected between 9 August 2026 and 10 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 0
March 0
April 1
May 1
June 1
July 0
August 25
September 44
October 36
November 0
December 0

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 36 Official feed exists
Fire 17 News-only — undercounted
Flood 9 Official feed exists
Road Accident 9 News-only — undercounted
Explosion 8 News-only — undercounted
Wildfire 7 Official feed exists
Epidemic 5 Official feed exists
Building Collapse 4 News-only — undercounted
Air Crash 3 News-only — undercounted
Shooting 3 News-only — undercounted
Drought 2 Official feed exists
Drowning 2 News-only — undercounted
Rail Accident 1 News-only — undercounted
Power Outage 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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