Incidents in North America
24,951 incidents have been recorded across 23 countries in North America by Global Incident Tracker, 21,643 of them in 2026. Cyclones and hurricanes 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 North America records more of than the world
Every region has a different shape. This compares each hazard's share of North America'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cyclone / Hurricane | 1,164 | 4.7% | 4.35× |
| Tornado | 138 | 0.6% | 3.97× |
| Gas Leak | 159 | 0.6% | 2.79× |
| Air Crash | 583 | 2.3% | 2.57× |
| Tsunami | 53 | 0.2% | 2.46× |
| Earthquake | 11,993 | 48.1% | 1.64× |
Countries in North America
| # | Country | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United States | 16,375 |
| 2 | Mexico | 3,805 |
| 3 | Canada | 1,568 |
| 4 | Dominican Republic | 1,065 |
| 5 | Panama | 633 |
| 6 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 340 |
| 7 | Costa Rica | 269 |
| 8 | Guatemala | 225 |
| 9 | El Salvador | 181 |
| 10 | Nicaragua | 157 |
| 11 | Cuba | 72 |
| 12 | Dominica | 49 |
| 13 | Haiti | 43 |
| 14 | Honduras | 35 |
| 15 | Barbados | 31 |
| 16 | Antigua and Barbuda | 26 |
| 17 | Bahamas | 26 |
| 18 | Belize | 22 |
| 19 | Jamaica | 18 |
| 20 | Trinidad and Tobago | 4 |
| 21 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 3 |
| 22 | Saint Lucia | 2 |
| 23 | Grenada | 2 |
When North America is busiest
September carries the most records we hold for North America. This is when incidents were reported, so read a quiet month as either a quiet month or thin reporting.
| Month | Recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| January | 801 | |
| February | 624 | |
| March | 694 | |
| April | 706 | |
| May | 673 | |
| June | 631 | |
| July | 883 | |
| August | 2,179 | |
| September | 10,334 | |
| October | 5,513 | |
| November | 484 | |
| December | 1,429 |
How much of this is news, not data
11% of what we hold for North America 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 →