Lists of disasters explained

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 1500–1999
  • 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.

• List of accidents and disasters by death toll

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 cause 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 (almost all caused by failures of management)
• List of military disasters
• List of riots
• List of terrorist incidents
• List of wars
  • List of anthropogenic disasters 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 Great Britain and Ireland
• 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 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 South Korea
• List of disasters in Thailand
• List of disasters in the United States

Other

• List of disasters by cost