South Africa Incident Tracker
What actually happens in South Africa — risk profile → All of Africa → Get alerts for South Africa
Every incident recorded in South Africa — natural disasters, accidents, fires, collapses, blasts and outbreaks — tracked live and given its own detailed report page.
Incidents in South Africa Today
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Recent incident records
Twelve-month trend
About Incidents & Disasters in South Africa
South Africa lies in Africa, with its capital at Pretoria. Historically the country is most affected by droughts, floods, wildfires and mining accidents. This page monitors South Africa around the clock, plotting every detected incident on the map above and giving each one its own permanent record page.
Our monitoring for South Africa combines twenty-four independent streams: the USGS and EMSC seismic networks, the United Nations' GDACS alert system, NASA EONET and NASA FIRMS satellite observations, WHO outbreak bulletins, US NWS severe-weather alerts, the Smithsonian volcano programme, NOAA tsunami messages, GDELT global news monitoring, the Wikipedia current-events record, UN OCHA ReliefWeb, moderated public reports — and our own rotating sweep of local media in local languages. That last piece is what lets us capture smaller local incidents — building collapses, blasts, road and rail accidents, fires and drownings — that single-source trackers miss entirely.
So far in 2026, 370 incidents have been recorded in South Africa, including 1 rated severe or extreme. Counters update automatically as new events are detected.
Bookmark this page to follow the live situation in South Africa, or explore other countries, the full A–Z of incident types and the deadliest incidents in history.
Breakdown by type
Cities in South Africa
Each city has its own live page covering everything within about 65 km.