Incidents in Oceania
7,328 incidents have been recorded across 11 countries in Oceania by Global Incident Tracker, 6,071 of them in 2026. Earthquakes 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 Oceania records more of than the world
Every region has a different shape. This compares each hazard's share of Oceania'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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquake | 4,401 | 60.1% | 2.05× |
| Wildfire | 2,693 | 36.7% | 1.29× |
| Epidemic | 25 | 0.3% | 0.12× |
| Fire | 40 | 0.5% | 0.08× |
| Flood | 37 | 0.5% | 0.06× |
| Storm | 43 | 0.6% | 0.05× |
Countries in Oceania
| # | Country | Records |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Australia | 2,168 |
| 2 | Papua New Guinea | 1,387 |
| 3 | Tonga | 966 |
| 4 | Fiji | 884 |
| 5 | New Zealand | 577 |
| 6 | Vanuatu | 567 |
| 7 | Palau | 321 |
| 8 | Solomon Islands | 243 |
| 9 | Kiribati | 89 |
| 10 | Micronesia | 73 |
| 11 | Samoa | 53 |
When Oceania is busiest
September carries the most records we hold for Oceania. This is when incidents were reported, so read a quiet month as either a quiet month or thin reporting.
| Month | Recorded | |
|---|---|---|
| January | 257 | |
| February | 266 | |
| March | 398 | |
| April | 395 | |
| May | 385 | |
| June | 276 | |
| July | 393 | |
| August | 536 | |
| September | 2,312 | |
| October | 1,577 | |
| November | 251 | |
| December | 282 |
How much of this is news, not data
1% of what we hold for Oceania 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 →