Avalanche Center: Avalanche Accidents, Incidents, Disasters

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Current Totals: Reports Posted This Season - 59 ; Fatalities Posted This Season - 77 ; Reports in Database: 1980

NEW - Spring Avalanche Lists - Information and indexes for spring avalanche incidents by country, activity, etc. We use this information and some case studies in our Online Climbers Avalanche Course which is for spring. Hopefully that course will help keep people off of these lists!

To learn how to avoid getting an entry in this section visit our Avalanche Institute.

Current Years Snow Avalanche Incidents:

- Incident Summaries via the Avalanche Center RSS Incidents Channel

We only list the most recently added avalanche incidents here on the front section page. They may not be chronological, they are generally added to the top whenever we create the report file. All other incidents since October 1998 can be located using the search page. All 2020-21 incidents other than the ones below are now available on that search page!

Due to a lack of resources we are behind on archiving some incidents from the last few years. Many are listed on our working archive page. Help support our public archive and other work.

View Report	Fatalities	Date	State/Country	Location	Activity
Search All (or most) Incident Reports (Since Oct 1, 1998)
		Apr 04	Alaska-US	Neacola Mountains	Climbing
	- 14	Mar 04	Afghanistan	Badakhshan (NE)	Mining
	- 3	Jan 08	Russia	Norilsk	Ski Area Cottage

Incident Reports Posted for 2020-2021: 58
Reported Fatalities for 2020-2021: 77

Incidents from seasons prior to October 1998:

All incidents since October 1, 1998 can be found using the search form.

Other Avalanche Incidents and Related Pages

Archived News on French Incidents (in English)
Annual Accident Summaries for France, 2002-2010 (by PisteHors)
Lessons Learned from Incidents (English translation from French, by PisteHors)
Swiss Incident Information - German, English
Austria, Dec 28 1999, 9 Skiers killed

Grief and Loss Resources

After a close call, or one by a friend or family member, Critical Incident Stress may occur. Additional useful information is available from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation.