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 1500–1999
 * 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