Historical Disaster Trends
Decadal event counts with linear regression trend lines. Pick any disaster type and metric — 1900–2020, served from precomputed EM-DAT data.
Floods are accelerating
Recorded floods grew 3.3× from 524 events in the 1980s to 1725 in the 2000s.
Time series — decadal trend per disaster type
Bars show event counts; the line is a least-squares linear trend across all 13 decades. Decades with fewer than 10 recorded events are greyed out — sample size too small to read.
IncreasingSlope: 112.1 events / decade
Greyed bars = decade with fewer than 10 events.