2026 season to date•Updated Sep 30, 2026

2026, mapped —
every extreme, one site

Four living trackers for an intense year: 102 major earthquakes, 7 Pacific hurricanes including 3 Category 5s, 15 major disasters, and 10 armed conflicts — each mapped, timed, and replayable from January to today.

Latest events

The newest entries across all four trackers — refreshed with every data update.

Conflict Sudan — SAF vs. RSF — latest updateA top adviser to army chief Burhan told Reuters the U.S.’s 90-day ceasefire plan risks a “Libya-style partition” — hours after reports that Burhan’s U.N. Genera Conflict Gaza & the North — latest updateIsrael killed Izz al-Din Al-Beik — head of Hamas’s armed wing in northern Gaza — in a Gaza City airstrike on Sep 29; strikes killed at least five more Palestini Conflict Russia–Ukraine — latest updateOvernight, Russia said it struck Kyiv’s energy and digital infrastructure — the De Novo data centre, the Kyivska substation, the Kyiv hydroelectric plant, the T Hurricane Nolo — Active · Category 4Sep 30: 145 mph · 939 mb Hurricane Polo — Dissipated inlandSep 30: 35 mph Conflict Mexico — Cartel War — latest updateTreasury’s OFAC sanctioned 21 individuals and 25 companies in the Los Mayos fentanyl-and-corruption network, naming Ismael “Mayito Flaco” Zambada Sicairos as it Conflict Yemen — Houthis & the Red Sea — latest updateU.N. envoy Hans Grundberg met Houthi negotiators in Muscat over the weekend and in Riyadh, trying to halt a September offensive that ended the 2022 ceasefire an Conflict Somalia vs. Al-Shabaab — latest updateAFRICOM carried out at least six airstrikes against al-Shabaab in September — including Sep 17 on a weapons warehouse in the Cal Madow mountains and Sep 24–25 n Conflict Haiti — Gang Crisis — latest updateThe U.N. Security Council extended the Gang Suppression Force’s mandate to Mar 31, 2027 (Resolution 2829, 12–0–3; China, Russia and Pakistan abstained) — hours Conflict Eastern DRC — M23 — latest updateThe U.N. Security Council concluded that fighting between government forces and M23 continues despite the December 2025 Washington Accords and the November 2025 Hurricane Polo — Landfall · Baja California SurSep 29: 90 mph Hurricane Polo — Landfall · SonoraSep 29: 75 mph Conflict Myanmar Civil War — latest updateA junta airstrike on a market in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, killed 50 people and wounded 58 — Rakhine’s deadliest airstrike since December — drawing U.N. condemna Hurricane Nolo — Peak · Category 4Sep 28: 155 mph · 929 mb Hurricane Polo — Category 3Sep 28: 115 mph Earthquake M6.6 — 80 km ENE of Tadine, New CaledoniaShallow thrust east of the Loyalty Islands; felt in New Caledonia, 11 felt reports. Earthquake M6.4 — 49 km NNE of Kainantu, Papua New GuineaEastern Highlands event; 30 felt reports, shallow-ish intraslab but no major damage. Earthquake M6.5 — 177 km W of Nikolski, AlaskaSecond big Aleutians event this month; 98 km depth puts it inside the slab, no tsunami threat.
Seismic · USGS

2026 major earthquakes

All 102 magnitude 6+ quakes, January–September — epicenters, depths, faults, and three watch zones. Press play to replay the year.

102M6+ events
M 7.8Strongest · Mindanao
11M7+ shocks
Tropical · NHC

2026 major hurricanes

Every Pacific major's full track — Genevieve, Lowell and Polo all reached Category 5 — while the Atlantic sits at zero, its longest drought since 1914.

7Pacific majors
3Category 5s
0Atlantic hurricanes
Wildfire · Flood · Tornado · Volcano · Heat

2026 major disasters

15 non-seismic disasters: Utah's record wildfire season, the Nepal–Tibet glacial floods, Anak Krakatau, the European heatwave and more.

15Events
1,453+Deadliest · Nepal–Tibet
5Categories
Armed conflict · dated updates

2026 major conflicts

Ten conflicts with latest-update lines and 2026 timelines — Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Myanmar, the Sahel, Haiti, Somalia, Yemen and Mexico's cartel war.

10Conflicts
50Timeline events
Sep 30Latest updates

What is the 2026 Extremes Tracker?

The 2026 Extremes Tracker follows the year's most significant natural and human-made extremes on four interactive maps: major earthquakes (every M6+ shock, with depths, faults and watch zones), major hurricanes (full Pacific storm tracks, including three Category 5s), major disasters (wildfires, floods, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions and heatwaves — seismic and tropical-cyclone events live on their own trackers), and major conflicts (ten armed conflicts, each with a dated latest update).

Each tracker shares the same interaction language: numbered pins in chronological order, click any pin (or list row, or timeline bar) for details and sources, and a play-the-year animation that replays the months in sequence. Data is refreshed regularly from public sources including the USGS and the National Hurricane Center.

2026 extremes — key questions