Kazakhstan — Natural Disaster Report
Asia · Live status: Critical (290 active events)
Current situation: 290 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Kazakhstan, with a worst severity of Extreme. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Kazakhstan's vast territory spans steppe, desert and high mountains, giving it a wide but dispersed hazard profile. The southeast, including Almaty, sits in a seismically active zone at the edge of the Tien Shan, and historical earthquakes have destroyed the city more than once. Spring snowmelt combined with rainfall causes flooding across northern and central regions, with the 2024 floods among the most severe in decades. Mountain areas face mudflows and avalanches, and the drying of the Aral Sea remains one of the world's starkest examples of human-driven environmental disaster, leaving dust storms carrying salt and agricultural chemicals.
Live map — Kazakhstan
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By hazard in Kazakhstan
Each of these has its own page: recent activity, the season it happens in, past events and what to do.
- Cold Waves in Kazakhstan
- Extreme Weather in Kazakhstan
- Heavy Rains in Kazakhstan
- Severe Storms in Kazakhstan
- Wildfires in Kazakhstan
Risk profile
Snowmelt flooding March-May. Earthquakes in the southeast, year-round. Avalanches and mudflows in the Tien Shan, spring. Extreme cold in winter and heat in summer across the steppe. Dust storms near the Aral basin.
Official emergency authorities
Disaster displacement in Kazakhstan
638 internal displacements
Largest single event: 638 from flood, beginning 1 March 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 |
|---|---|
| Flood | 638 |
| Year | Displacements |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 638 |
| 2024 | 120,053 |
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 Kazakhstan
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 4,304 | 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. |
| NASA FIRMS | 36 | 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. |
| 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 EONET | none | Global and curated rather than automatic, so it is slower than the raw feeds and carries far fewer events. |
| 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.
Frequently asked questions
What natural disasters are currently active in Kazakhstan?
There are currently 290 monitored natural disaster events in Kazakhstan. The overall risk status is Critical. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Kazakhstan face?
Kazakhstan's vast territory spans steppe, desert and high mountains, giving it a wide but dispersed hazard profile. The southeast, including Almaty, sits in a seismically active zone at the edge of the Tien Shan, and historical earthquakes have destroyed the city more than once.
When is the main natural disaster season in Kazakhstan?
Snowmelt flooding March-May. Earthquakes in the southeast, year-round. Avalanches and mudflows in the Tien Shan, spring. Extreme cold in winter and heat in summer across the steppe. Dust storms near the Aral basin. Seasons shift from year to year; treat these as the usual pattern, not a forecast.
Which official agency issues disaster warnings in Kazakhstan?
Official warnings for Kazakhstan are issued by Kazhydromet and Ministry of Emergency Situations. Links to each are 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 Kazakhstan 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.