Daily report

Natural disasters on 21 September 2026

On 21 September 2026, this site recorded 3,280 natural disaster events worldwide, of which 1,117 were severe storm events. That is 38% above the daily average for the surrounding fortnight (2,381). The largest earthquake was magnitude 5.5 in Indonesia.

3,280Events recorded
70 Extreme
869 Severe
10Countries listed

The most serious events

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

EventTypeSeverityWhereTime (UTC)
Anping County Meteorological Observatory updates heavy fog red warning [Level I/Extremely Severe], China Extreme Weather Extreme China 22:53
Tornado Warning — Lincoln, WV; Logan, WV; Mingo, WV; Wayne, WV Tornado Extreme United States 22:49
Xinle City Meteorological Observatory updates heavy fog red warning [Level I/Extremely Severe], China Extreme Weather Extreme China 22:15
Tornado Warning — Lawrence, KY; Wayne, WV Tornado Extreme United States 21:48
Qingyuan District Meteorological Observatory updates heavy fog red warning [Level I/Extremely Severe], China Extreme Weather Extreme China 21:36
The weather station of Weining County issued a red warning for rainstorm [Level I/especially serious], China Heavy Rain Extreme China 20:03
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Adam : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:26
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Taif : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:26
Warning, Heavy rain — Makkah region - Al Ardiyat : The entire, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:26
Warning, Heavy rain — Bahah region - Hajrah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:26
Warning, Heavy rain — Bahah region - Al Bahah : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:26
Warning, Heavy rain — Asir region - Rijal Al Ma : The entire governorate, Saudi Arabia Heavy Rain Extreme Saudi Arabia 18:25

By hazard type

HazardEvents
Severe Storm1,117
Extreme Weather894
Wildfire535
Flood268
Heavy Rain222
Earthquake69
Storm Surge65
Heatwave60
Cold Wave31
Tornado13
Landslide5
Volcanic Activity1

Countries with the most recorded events

CountryEvents
United States1,115
China540
India150
Indonesia149
Algeria101
Kazakhstan79
Greece74
Russia51
Saudi Arabia44
Norway39

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.