Denmark — Natural Disaster Report
Europe · Live status: Elevated (12 active events)
Current situation: 12 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Denmark, with a worst severity of Moderate. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Denmark is low-lying with a long coastline, making storm surge its defining hazard. North Sea and Baltic storms push water against the coast, and the October 2023 Baltic surge caused the most severe coastal flooding in decades in southern Denmark. Historic storm surges have permanently reshaped the Wadden Sea coastline. Windstorms bring damaging gusts inland, and heavy rainfall causes urban flooding in Copenhagen, where a 2011 cloudburst overwhelmed drainage and caused enormous insured losses. Sea-level rise is a central long-term planning concern.
Live map — Denmark
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Active alerts & recent events
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By hazard in Denmark
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
Risk profile
Storm surge October-March on both the North Sea and Baltic coasts. Windstorms in autumn and winter. Cloudburst urban flooding in summer. Coastal erosion on the west coast. Long-term sea-level rise.
Official emergency authorities
Disaster displacement in Denmark
8 internal displacements
Largest single event: 8 from mass movement, beginning 8 February 2024.
A displacement is a movement, not a person: somebody forced from home more than once in a year is counted more than once. These are movements caused by disasters only — displacement caused by conflict is counted separately and is not included here.
| Hazard | Displacements in 2024 |
|---|---|
| Mass Movement | 8 |
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Global Internal Displacement Database. IDMC publishes annually, so the latest year here is the latest they have finalised — not the current one.
What this site sees in Denmark
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 20 | Each warning comes from one country own alerting authority, so the scale is that agency scale and is not comparable between countries. Many agencies publish no coordinates, and those warnings are placed at the centre of the country rather than where the weather is - the area name is the real answer. |
| MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET) | 18 | Europe only. It publishes no coordinates at all, so every warning here is placed at the centre of its country and the area name is the only reliable indication of where it applies. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | none | Global, but deliberately selective: it alerts on disasters likely to need INTERNATIONAL response. Serious local flooding that a national agency handles alone will not appear here. |
| US Geological Survey | none | Global for earthquakes above roughly M4.5, and denser where there are more seismometers. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | none | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| NASA FIRMS | none | Global, but it sees only what the satellite saw on its pass, and thick cloud hides fire. A quiet day here is not evidence that nothing burned. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| NOAA Tsunami Warning Centers | none | These two centres warn for the US and Canadian coasts and for the Pacific and Caribbean basins. The Indian Ocean and Mediterranean have their own warning centres, which are not read here. Their routine information statements - the ones that say there is NO tsunami danger - are deliberately not imported, so an empty tsunami list means no threat was issued, not that nothing was checked. |
| NOAA National Hurricane Center | none | The Atlantic and the eastern and central Pacific only. No typhoon in the western Pacific and no cyclone in the Indian Ocean or the southern hemisphere appears here; those come from GDACS and from national services. |
| ReliefWeb (UN OCHA) | none | Global, but it reports on humanitarian RESPONSE. It arrives days after an event rather than during it, and never functions as a warning. |
Not applicable here: US National Weather Service — Covers the United States only. It publishes nothing about any other country, so its absence from a country page is not an outage. ; USGS Volcano Hazards Program — United States volcanoes only - Alaska, Hawaii, the Cascades, Yellowstone, California and the Northern Mariana Islands. It says nothing about Indonesia, Iceland, Italy or anywhere else, so its silence about a foreign eruption is not a judgement about that eruption.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Denmark?
There are currently 12 monitored natural disaster events in Denmark. The overall risk status is Elevated. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Denmark face?
Denmark is low-lying with a long coastline, making storm surge its defining hazard. North Sea and Baltic storms push water against the coast, and the October 2023 Baltic surge caused the most severe coastal flooding in decades in southern Denmark.
When is the main natural disaster season in Denmark?
Storm surge October-March on both the North Sea and Baltic coasts. Windstorms in autumn and winter. Cloudburst urban flooding in summer. Coastal erosion on the west coast. Long-term sea-level rise. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Denmark?
Official warnings for Denmark are issued by DMI — Danish Meteorological Institute. The link is on this page. This site aggregates and reports; it does not issue warnings, and in an emergency the national agency is the authority.
Where does this disaster data for Denmark come from?
Data is aggregated from official sources including USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, ReliefWeb and national agencies. Every event links to its original source, and update times are shown on each record.
Data sources: USGS, GDACS (EC/UN), NASA EONET, NOAA/NWS, EMSC, ReliefWeb (UN OCHA). See data sources & attribution and methodology. This page does not replace official emergency guidance.