Daily report

Natural disasters on 1 August 2026

On 1 August 2026, this site recorded 831 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 551 were wildfire events. That is 22% below the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (1,061). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.6 in Canada.

831Events recorded
34 Extreme
301 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

Ranked by severity, then by magnitude — not by what was published last.

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Tornado Warning — Darke, OH; Preble, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:57
Tornado Warning — Switzerland, IN; Boone, KY; Gallatin, KY; Grant, KY; Kenton, KY Tornado Extreme United States 23:57
Tornado Warning — Darke, OH; Montgomery, OH; Preble, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:53
Tornado Warning — Switzerland, IN; Gallatin, KY; Grant, KY; Owen, KY Tornado Extreme United States 23:45
Tornado Warning — Darke, OH; Montgomery, OH; Preble, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:39
Tornado Warning — Wayne, IN; Darke, OH; Preble, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:31
Tornado Warning — Franklin, IN; Union, IN; Butler, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:13
Tornado Warning — Franklin, IN; Union, IN; Butler, OH Tornado Extreme United States 23:02
Tornado Warning — Franklin, IN; Union, IN; Butler, OH Tornado Extreme United States 22:49
Active Fire Zone — 953 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 21:32
Active Fire Zone — 1,343 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 21:32
Tornado Warning — Marion, IN Tornado Extreme United States 21:31

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Wildfire551
Severe Storm102
Flood86
Earthquake70
Tornado22

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States209
Angola79
Zambia66
DR Congo26
Burundi23
Malawi21
Tanzania15
Indonesia14
Papua New Guinea13
Russia12

Events at sea, and satellite fire detections with no country resolved, are counted in the total above but cannot appear in this table.

How to read this page

These are events that reached the monitored feeds on this date — USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET and FIRMS, NOAA/NWS, EMSC and ReliefWeb. Recorded is not the same as happened. A flood in a country with no public alerting system may not appear here at all, and a single storm can be published as several records by different agencies.

Counts are also uneven by design of the sources, not of the day: satellite fire detection publishes hundreds of zones where a national weather service publishes one warning for a whole region. That is why the comparison above is against this site's own recent daily average rather than against any absolute idea of a normal day.

Full method on methodology; every feed and its update cadence on data sources.