Haiti — Natural Disaster Report
North America · Live status: Normal (0 active events)
Current situation: No active natural disaster events are currently tracked for Haiti by our monitored sources. This does not guarantee absence of hazards — always follow local authorities.
Haiti is the most disaster-vulnerable country in the Americas, where high hazard exposure meets deep structural fragility. The 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince killed somewhere between 100,000 and 230,000 people — the range itself reflects how difficult verification was — and destroyed much of the capital. A second major earthquake struck the southern peninsula in 2021. Haiti also lies directly in the Atlantic hurricane track, and Hurricane Matthew in 2016 devastated the south. Extensive deforestation, with only a small fraction of original tree cover remaining, has left slopes prone to catastrophic landslides and flash floods during heavy rain.
Live map — Haiti
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Active alerts & recent events
Latest earthquakes
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By hazard in Haiti
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
Risk profile
Earthquakes year-round on the Enriquillo and Septentrional fault systems. Hurricanes June-November, peaking August-October. Flash floods and landslides during the rainy seasons, April-June and August-October. Drought in the northwest.
Official emergency authorities
Disaster displacement in Haiti
9,513 internal displacements
Largest single event: 6,435 from storm, beginning 26 October 2025.
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 2025 |
|---|---|
| Storm | 6,435 |
| Mixed disasters | 3,078 |
| Year | Displacements |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 9,513 |
| 2024 | 4,807 |
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 Haiti
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| NASA FIRMS | 20 | 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. |
| European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre | 2 | Global for earthquakes, with the best coverage in Europe and the Mediterranean. It publishes nothing about any other hazard. |
| GDACS (European Commission / United Nations) | 1 | 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. |
| NASA EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | none | 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) | none | 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. |
| 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.
Major historical disasters — Haiti
| Event | Type | Date | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 Haiti Earthquake | Earthquake | Aug 14, 2021 | 2,248 |
| 2010 Haiti Earthquake | Earthquake | Jan 12, 2010 | 230,000 |
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Haiti?
No active natural disaster events are currently being tracked for Haiti by our monitored data sources. Conditions can change quickly — check official local authorities for definitive guidance.
What natural hazards does Haiti face?
Haiti is the most disaster-vulnerable country in the Americas, where high hazard exposure meets deep structural fragility. The 2010 earthquake near Port-au-Prince killed somewhere between 100,000 and 230,000 people — the range itself reflects how difficult verification was — and destroyed much of the capital.
When is the main natural disaster season in Haiti?
Earthquakes year-round on the Enriquillo and Septentrional fault systems. Hurricanes June-November, peaking August-October. Flash floods and landslides during the rainy seasons, April-June and August-October. Drought in the northwest. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Haiti?
Official warnings for Haiti are issued by Direction Generale de la Protection Civile. 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.
What is the deadliest recorded natural disaster in Haiti?
Of the events documented on this site, the deadliest in Haiti is the 2010 Haiti Earthquake (2010), with around 230,000 deaths. Haitian government cited 316,000; independent estimates 100,000–230,000. This is drawn from documented records held here and is not a complete historical archive.
Where does this disaster data for Haiti 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.