Lists of disasters
The following are lists of disasters.
Natural disasters
A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. These lists are lists of natural disasters:- List of avalanches
- List of blizzards
- List of derecho events
- List of droughts
- Lists of earthquakes
- List of fires
- * List of wildfires
- * List of California wildfires
- List of floods
- * History of flooding in Canada
- * List of deadliest floods
- * List of flash floods
- * List of floods in the Netherlands
- * List of floods in Pakistan
- * List of floods in Sheffield
- List of heat waves
- List of ice storms
- List of landslides
- List of natural disasters by death toll
- List of solar storms
- Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
- Lists of retired tropical cyclone names
- List of historical tropical cyclone names
- Outline of tropical cyclones
- List of tsunamis
- List of large volcanic eruptions
- * List of volcanic eruptions 1500–2000
- * List of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century
- * List of volcanic eruptions by death toll
Disasters caused by accidental human action
These are lists of disasters caused by accidental human action.Transport
- List of aviation accidents and incidents
- * List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft
- * Lists of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft
- * List of airship accidents
- * List of ballooning accidents
- * List of accidents and incidents involving helicopters
- List of elevator accidents
- List of maritime disasters
- * List of shipwrecks
- * List of boiler explosions
- List of rail accidents
- * List of boiler explosions
- * List of tram accidents
- * List of tanker explosions
- List of road accidents
- * List of tanker explosions
- List of spaceflight-related accidents and incidents
Industrial
- List of industrial disasters
- List of natural gas and oil production accidents in the United States
- List of structural failures and collapses
- * List of bridge failures
- * List of dam failures
- * List of levee failures
- * List of mast and tower collapses
- * List of modern infrastructure failures
- List of explosions
- * List of boiler explosions
- * List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE)
- List of major power outages
- List of mining disasters
- * List of coal mining accidents in China
- * List of gold mining disasters
- * List of mining disasters in Lancashire
- * List of mining disasters in Poland
- Nuclear and radiation accidents
- * Japanese nuclear incidents
- * List of civilian radiation accidents
- * List of Chernobyl-related articles
- * List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
- * Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
- * List of sunken nuclear submarines
- List of oil spills
Health
- List of famines
- List of food contamination incidents
- List of epidemics and pandemics
- List of mass evacuations
- List of medicine contamination incidents
- List of methanol poisoning incidents
Disasters caused by deliberate human action
These are lists of disasters caused by deliberate human action or public endangerment or culpable negligence.- List of amusement park accidents
- List of economic crises
- List of environmental disasters
- List of explosions
- * List of boiler explosions
- * List of boiling liquid expanding vapor explosions (BLEVE)
- * List of tanker explosions
- List of fires
- * List of building or structure fires
- * List of circus fires
- * List of hotel fires in the United States
- * List of nightclub fires
- * List of town and city fires
- * List of transportation fires
- List of fireworks accidents and incidents
- List of man-made mass poisoning incidents
- List of orphan radioactive source incidents
- List of crushes
- List of military disasters
- List of riots
- List of terrorist incidents
- List of wars
- * List of wars by death toll
By location
- List of disasters in Antarctica
- List of disasters in Australia
- List of disasters in Canada
- * List of disasters in Canada by death toll
- List of disasters in Croatia
- List of disasters in Estonia
- List of disasters in Fiji
- List of disasters in Finland
- List of disasters in France
- List of disasters in Great Britain and Ireland
- List of disasters in Greece
- List of disasters in Haiti
- Lists of disasters in Indonesia
- * List of disasters in Indonesia
- * List of earthquakes in Indonesia
- * List of natural disasters in Indonesia
- List of disasters in Italy
- List of disasters in New Zealand
- * List of natural disasters in New Zealand
- List of disasters in Pakistan
- List of disasters in the Philippines
- List of disasters in Poland
- List of disasters in Singapore
- List of disasters in South Korea
- * List of man-made disasters in South Korea
- List of disasters in Spain
- List of disasters in Sweden
- List of disasters in Switzerland
- List of disasters in Taiwan
- List of disasters in Thailand
- List of disasters in the United States