EM-DAT Brazil: Natural Hazard Impacts and Economic Losses by Subtype

Aggregated natural hazard statistics for Brazil tracking human and economic impacts by year and disaster subtype. Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), the data includes counts of events, fatalities, and financial losses. The records are updated through early 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing trends in disaster frequency in Brazil using the 'number of disasters' column
• Correlating 'economic losses' with specific 'disaster subtype' categories
• Quantifying human impact by aggregating 'total number of deaths' and 'total number of people affected' over multiple years

Strengths

• Standardized disaster classification by subtype
• Includes both original and adjusted economic loss values
• Maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Aggregated data format lacks specific event-level coordinates or dates
• Geographic scope is restricted to Brazil
• Economic loss reporting depends on available national records which may be incomplete

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from the EM-DAT database

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Brazil