Daily report

Natural disasters on 3 August 2026

On 3 August 2026, this site recorded 864 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 560 were wildfire events. That is 22% below the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (1,110). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.2 in Peru.

864Events recorded
6 Extreme
307 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Active Fire Zone — 722 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 21:14
Active Fire Zone — 546 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 20:54
Active Fire Zone — 591 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 20:54
Active Fire Zone — 544 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 20:53
Active Fire Zone — 741 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 19:25
Active Fire Zone — 1,727 satellite detections (24h) Wildfire Extreme — 17:47
Severe Thunderstorm Warning — Cochise, AZ; Pima, AZ; Santa Cruz, AZ Severe Storm Severe United States 23:59
Severe Thunderstorm Warning — Cochise, AZ Severe Storm Severe United States 23:54
Severe Thunderstorm Warning — Johnston, NC; Wayne, NC; Wilson, NC Severe Storm Severe United States 23:54
Severe Thunderstorm Warning — Cochise, AZ Severe Storm Severe United States 23:54
Severe Thunderstorm Warning — Cochise, AZ Severe Storm Severe United States 23:50
Severe Thunderstorm Warning — Cumberland, NC; Harnett, NC; Johnston, NC; Sampson, NC Severe Storm Severe United States 23:47

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Wildfire560
Flood119
Severe Storm104
Earthquake81

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States224
Angola68
Zambia66
DR Congo42
Burundi20
Mozambique18
Malawi17
Madagascar17
Papua New Guinea15
Indonesia14

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.