# 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.
* 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 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 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
* List of engineering blunders