Hari5115/nasa-eonet

NASA EONET — Natural Disaster Events (Historical)

Natural disaster and environmental events tracked by NASA's Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker (EONET) since 1980. 4,550 named events across 12 categories — volcanic eruptions, severe storms, floods, sea ice, earthquakes and more — with lat/lon geometry for each observation point.

Source

• API: NASA EONET API
• Data refreshed: periodically via NASA EONET public API

Coverage by category

Category	Events	Date range
Severe Storms	2,375	1999 → 2026
Volcanoes	1,173	1980 → 2026
Floods	765	2015 → 2026
Sea and Lake Ice	158	2011 → 2026
Earthquakes	15	2015 → 2018
Landslides	17	2015 → 2020
Dust and Haze	17	2015 → 2018
Water Color	18	2015 → 2018
Temperature Extremes	14	2015 → 2018
Manmade	8	2015 → 2018
Drought	7	2015 → 2018
Snow	5	2016 → 2018

The smaller categories (earthquakes, landslides, etc.) were discontinued around 2018. The four core categories — storms, volcanoes, floods, sea ice — have full continuous coverage to present day.

Notes

• One row per geometry observation: events with continuous tracking (storm tracks, hurricane paths, ice extent changes) have multiple rows. A single hurricane may have 20+ rows tracing its movement.
• Wildfires excluded: EONET ingests NASA satellite fire hotspot detections in near real-time — hundreds of thousands of points per day globally. These are excluded here as they are better treated as a separate dataset.
• description is ~99% null — the EONET API rarely populates this field.
• magnitude_value / magnitude_unit are only populated for severe storms (wind speed in knots).

Usage

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_parquet("data/eonet_historical.parquet")

# All volcanic eruptions
volcanoes = df[df["category"] == "volcanoes"]

# Active (still ongoing) events
active = df[df["status"] == "open"]

# Storm tracks for a specific year
df["year"] = df["geometry_date"].str[:4]
storms_2020 = df[(df["category"] == "severeStorms") & (df["year"] == "2020")]

# Full track of one event
track = df[df["event_id"] == "EONET_5765"].sort_values("geometry_date")

Attribution

Data sourced from NASA EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker), a service of the NASA Earth Observatory.

This dataset is independently collected from the NASA EONET public API and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.