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Australia

WatchScore 2+1 in 7 daysOpen the map

Violence in the news: 555 reports in the week to Oct 19, 2026 · ×1.2 · against the three weeks before; GDELT, not verified

Protests in the news: 34 reports in the week to Oct 19, 2026 · ×1.1 · against the three weeks before; GDELT, not verified

Level, last 60 days

  • Deaths 30 d

    0

    UCDP up to 2026-09-30

  • Per million 90 d

    –

    last 90 days

  • Civilians

    –

    last 90 days

  • Incidents 30 d

    0

  • Population

    27.6 M

    World Bank

  • Plants near violence

    0 / 12

    near violence / total; 0 nuclear

Why this level2

  • +147 natural-hazard events in the last 7 daysGDACS · USGS · NASA EONET
  • +1Natural hazards, 7 days: 47, 2.7× its 30-day averageGDACS · USGS · NASA EONET

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Every monitored signal

The last 60 days, each on its own scale.

  • Natural hazards, 7 days

    47

  • Refugees who fled

    72

  • Severe weather warnings in force

    2

  • Confirmed outages, places, 24 h

    7

Source: ARMSMA situation watch

Deaths in organised violence, per week

Australia, UCDP best estimates. The red bar is the latest week.

The latest week may be incomplete.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-09-30

Who the violence is between

Deaths by kind of violence, last 90 days of data.

  • State-based conflict · 0%
  • Non-state conflict · 0%
  • Against civilians · 0%

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Food, displacement, sanctions

People in food crisis (IPC 3+)
–
2026-09
Share in food crisis
–
2026-09
Undernourishment
2.5%
2024
Refugees who fled
72
2025
Refugees hosted
116,340
2025
Internally displaced
–
2025
Sanctions designations
30
2026-10-20
GDP per person
$65,130
2025

FEWS NET · World Bank / FAO · UNHCR · OpenSanctions

People in crisis-level food insecurity

FEWS NET does not cover this country.

Latest incidents of organised violence0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate, Uppsala University (CC BY 4.0), data up to 2026-09-30

Conflicts, 90 days0

No organised violence recorded in the current data.

Source: UCDP GED Candidate (CC BY 4.0)

Natural hazards, 30 days25

  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 20, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 20, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 19, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 18, 2026
  • WildfireForest fires in Australia · Oct 18, 2026

GDACS · USGS · NASA EONET

Warnings and notices

UK FCDO: Australia: No specific restriction

Australia: 2 severe weather warnings

• Extreme Heat – Severe ×2

UK FCDO · WMO · WHO · Copernicus EMS

Next 7 days in Canberra

Day°CRainGustsWatch
Wed, Oct 219…240.6 mm25 km/h
Thu, Oct 2210…225.1 mm45 km/hthunderstorm
Fri, Oct 2315…224.9 mm28 km/h
Sat, Oct 2414…240.1 mm34 km/h
Sun, Oct 2513…2221.0 mm67 km/hthunderstorm
Mon, Oct 264…160.0 mm49 km/h
Tue, Oct 273…160.0 mm49 km/h

Forecast for the capital only; marks: heat ≥38 °C, frost ≤−20 °C, rain ≥50 mm, gusts ≥75 km/h, thunderstorms. Official warnings are above.

Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)

Disasters since 20002

012000: 020002001: 02002: 02003: 02004: 02005: 020052006: 02007: 02008: 02009: 02010: 020102011: 02012: 02013: 02014: 02015: 020152016: 02017: 02018: 02019: Droughts 12020: 020202021: Tropical cyclones 12022: 02023: 02024: 02025: 020252026: 02026

Tropical cyclonesDroughts

  • Tropical Cyclone NIRAN-21 · Mar 1, 2021 · Tropical Storm (maximum wind speed of 259 km/h)
  • Drought in Australia · Jun 21, 2019 · Medium impact for agricultural drought in 520141 km2

GDACS (orange and red alerts since 2000)