Singapore — Natural Disaster Report
Asia · Live status: High (18 active events)
Current situation: 18 natural disaster events are currently monitored in Singapore, with a worst severity of Severe. Details, sources and timestamps are listed below.
Singapore's compact, highly developed territory limits the range of hazards it faces, and its position near the equator places it outside the main typhoon tracks. The principal risk is intense convective rainfall, which produces flash flooding in low-lying areas despite an extensive drainage network. Transboundary haze from peatland fires in neighbouring countries periodically pushes air quality into hazardous ranges. As a low-lying island state with much reclaimed land, long-term sea-level rise is a central planning concern, addressed through coastal protection programmes.
Live map — Singapore
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By hazard in Singapore
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Risk profile
Flash flooding during intense rainfall, heaviest November-January and April-May. Transboundary haze during regional dry seasons, typically June-October. Lightning, among the highest strike rates in the world, year-round. Long-term sea-level rise.
Official emergency authorities
What this site sees in Singapore
| Source | Events here, last 12 months | What it will not tell you |
|---|---|---|
| NASA FIRMS | 554 | 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. |
| WMO Alert Hub (national weather services) | 23 | 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. |
| 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 Singapore?
There are currently 18 monitored natural disaster events in Singapore. The overall risk status is High. See the live list on this page for details and sources.
What natural hazards does Singapore face?
Singapore's compact, highly developed territory limits the range of hazards it faces, and its position near the equator places it outside the main typhoon tracks. The principal risk is intense convective rainfall, which produces flash flooding in low-lying areas despite an extensive drainage network.
When is the main natural disaster season in Singapore?
Flash flooding during intense rainfall, heaviest November-January and April-May. Transboundary haze during regional dry seasons, typically June-October. Lightning, among the highest strike rates in the world, year-round. 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 Singapore?
Official warnings for Singapore are issued by Meteorological Service Singapore and Singapore Civil Defence Force. 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 Singapore 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.