Public Safety

The sources behind every figure in disaster_log: one row per figure per source, with the event it belongs to, which figure it supports (deaths, injured, missing, displaced, affected, houses_destroyed, or event for a source that establishes the event itself), the value used, and the URL, publisher and publication date of the page that states it. 262 citations across 97 events; every one was checked against the text of the page it points to when the log was compiled. Compiled by API Ghana; each row links to its own source. 262 records.

Ghana's disasters from 1939 to 2026 — floods, dam spillages, fires, explosions, building and mine collapses, crowd crushes, major road, boat and air accidents, epidemics, droughts, tidal surges, earthquakes and nationwide blackouts — with deaths, injuries, missing, displaced, affected and houses destroyed where a source states them. Every figure is cited: disaster_log_citations gives the page, publisher and date behind each number, official sources are preferred to the press, and where sources disagree the notes give the other figures. A figure no source states is NULL, never zero or an estimate; "more than N" is stored as N and noted. regions lists the present-day regions (the 16 created in 2019) covering the affected area, whatever the regions were called at the time. Events in the GLIDE register that could not be verified are included with no figures and verification set accordingly. Compiled by API Ghana from the cited sources, GLIDE (CC BY-IGO) and ReliefWeb (CC BY). 111 records.

How much burned where, month by month from 2000 to 2024: the number of vegetation fire detections NASA's MODIS satellites made in each Ghanaian district, how many of them were high confidence (80 or more), and their total and peak fire radiative power in megawatts. A district-month with no detections has no row. Gas flares and other static heat sources are left out, so the numbers follow the bush-burning season. Counts are satellite detections of 1 km pixels, not separate fires, and are consistent across the whole period because one instrument made them all. Built from NASA FIRMS (MODIS Collection 6.1), public domain. 28021 records.

Every earthquake the U.S. Geological Survey has catalogued with an epicentre in Ghana or its coastal waters, from 1939-06-22 to 2020-06-24: time, magnitude, depth, epicentre and the region and district it lies in. Most sit on the fault zone west of Accra, around Weija, Gbawe and Kasoa, including the magnitude 6.4 earthquake of 22 June 1939. This is the global network's record, so it holds the larger events and few small ones: the Ghana Geological Survey Authority records many minor tremors that are not here, and some older events have no magnitude. Sourced from the USGS ANSS Comprehensive Catalog, public domain. 18 records.

Every Ghanaian disaster that has been given a GLIDE number — floods, epidemics, insect plagues, transport and industrial accidents — with its date, hazard, place and the agency that reported it. GLIDE is the identifier humanitarian systems use to refer to the same event, so this is the table to join other disaster records on. It is a register, not a casualty count: GLIDE says its figures are not for statistical analysis, and the deaths, injuries and numbers affected are filled in for only some events. Where GLIDE left a figure at zero it is NULL here, and an event GLIDE placed at the middle of the country has no coordinates and a location_precision of country. Sourced from GLIDE Initiative, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 35 records.

IFRC emergency appeals and disaster relief funds raised for Ghana: what the disaster was, when, how many people were targeted, and what was requested and funded. Sourced from International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, via HDX (CC BY-IGO). 24 records.

Courthouses and prisons in Ghana. Derived from OpenStreetMap. 63 records.

Ghana National Fire Service stations with region, district and coordinates. Derived from OpenStreetMap. 57 records.

Ghana Police Service stations and posts with region, district and coordinates. Derived from OpenStreetMap. 329 records.