EM-DAT Ireland: Natural Disaster Impacts and Economic Losses

Aggregated statistics on natural hazard events in Ireland, categorized by year and disaster subtype. Produced by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), the data tracks human and economic impacts including fatalities and financial losses as recently as March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between disaster subtype and total number of deaths to identify high-risk hazard types
• Modeling economic losses (adjusted) over time to assess the financial impact of climate-related events
• Evaluating the total number of people affected per year to track trends in population vulnerability

Strengths

• Includes both original and inflation-adjusted economic loss figures
• Granular categorization by disaster subtype
• Authored by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Limitations

• Geographic scope is restricted to Ireland
• Aggregated format prevents analysis of specific individual disaster event dates or locations

Provenance

Source

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED)

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026

Geography

Ireland