Incidents in Europe
22,836 incidents have been recorded across 43 countries in Europe by Global Incident Tracker, 20,724 of them in 2026. Cold waves make up a larger share of the record here than anywhere else in the world. These are incidents our sources reported, not a regional total.
Continuous monitoring began 9 August 2026. These counters show what we have recorded since then, not everything that happened.
What Europe records more of than the world
Every region has a different shape. This compares each hazard's share of Europe's own record against its share of the global record — so a figure above 1.0 means the hazard is a bigger part of the picture here than it is anywhere else, regardless of how large the region is.
Read these as a measure of the record, not of danger. A ratio is shaped by two things at once: what actually happens, and who reports it. Hazards with no official feed anywhere — air, road and rail accidents, building collapses, fires, blasts — reach us only through news, so a region with dense local media will show more of them than a region with sparse media, even when the underlying risk is the same. A high number here means we hold more records, and that is not the same claim.
| Hazard | Records | Share here | vs world |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Wave | 398 | 1.7% | 4.65× |
| Heat Wave | 1,462 | 6.4% | 4.37× |
| Storm | 9,838 | 43.1% | 3.67× |
| Rail Accident | 63 | 0.3% | 2.64× |
| Riot / Unrest | 34 | 0.1% | 1.36× |
| Flood | 2,586 | 11.3% | 1.36× |
Countries in Europe
| # | Country | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russia | 3,909 |
| 2 | Spain | 2,522 |
| 3 | France | 1,957 |
| 4 | Austria | 1,818 |
| 5 | Poland | 1,543 |
| 6 | Germany | 984 |
| 7 | Greece | 956 |
| 8 | Italy | 917 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 833 |
| 10 | Latvia | 788 |
| 11 | Slovakia | 545 |
| 12 | Estonia | 483 |
| 13 | Romania | 440 |
| 14 | Portugal | 429 |
| 15 | Moldova | 418 |
| 16 | Ukraine | 407 |
| 17 | Croatia | 390 |
| 18 | Serbia | 376 |
| 19 | Belgium | 355 |
| 20 | Finland | 328 |
| 21 | Bulgaria | 298 |
| 22 | Norway | 267 |
| 23 | Switzerland | 227 |
| 24 | Iceland | 222 |
| 25 | Netherlands | 219 |
| 26 | Lithuania | 201 |
| 27 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 193 |
| 28 | Montenegro | 146 |
| 29 | Slovenia | 143 |
| 30 | Czech Republic | 120 |
and 13 more — see every country.
When Europe is busiest
September carries the most records we hold for Europe. This is when incidents were reported, so read a quiet month as either a quiet month or thin reporting.
| Month | Recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| January | 194 | |
| February | 163 | |
| March | 184 | |
| April | 140 | |
| May | 112 | |
| June | 194 | |
| July | 172 | |
| August | 4,644 | |
| September | 10,355 | |
| October | 6,177 | |
| November | 296 | |
| December | 205 |
How much of this is news, not data
11% of what we hold for Europe falls in hazard categories that have no official real-time feed anywhere in the world — building collapses, road and rail accidents, fires, blasts, stampedes. Those records exist because a journalist wrote something.
That number is worth carrying with every other number on this page. Which hazards have no feed →