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A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. These lists are lists of natural disasters: These lists are lists of natural disasters: List of avalanches
List of countries by natural disaster risk; List of all known deadly earthquakes since 1900; List of disasters in Canada; List of disasters in Indonesia; List of disasters in the Philippines; List of disasters in Thailand; List of natural disasters in the British Isles; List of natural disasters in Haiti; List of natural disasters in New Zealand
"Pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) Tool". United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Archived from the original on 2014-06-18. Provides key information on all countries in the world. "World's Worst Natural Disasters" Includes list of world's deadliest disasters in history.
Costliest natural disaster in the United States prior to Hurricane Katrina. 1988 Wildfire: 2 $240 million Yellowstone fires of 1988: Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming 793,880 acres (36% of the park) was burned in the fires started by lightning. 1985 Hurricane: 9 $1.3 billion Hurricane Elena: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas ...
A person in Asia-Pacific is five times more likely to be hit by a natural disaster than someone living in other regions. [25] Between 1995 and 2015, the greatest number of natural disasters occurred in America, China and India. [26] In 2012, there were 905 natural disasters worldwide, 93% of which were weather-related disasters.
This category is for articles about historic impacts of natural hazards. Natural disasters, like the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, are caused by the phenomena found in Category:Natural hazards, like earthquakes.
Nowadays it is hard to distinguish between natural and human-made disasters. [21] [25] [26] The term natural disaster was already challenged in 1976. [24] Human choices in architecture, [27] fire risk, [28] [29] and resource management [30] can cause or worsen natural disasters. Climate change also affects how often disasters due to extreme ...
For general articles about policies, management, tools, and organisations, see Category:Disaster management. One of the largest categories here is Category:Natural disasters. Articles should be placed in at least one 'type of disaster' subcategory and in the appropriate 'disaster by country' subcategory and 'disaster by year' subcategory.