List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll

File:DC-10 of Air New Zealand at Heathrow - 1977.jpg|Air New Zealand Flight 901 in 1979 File:1931 Hawkes Bay Earthquake - Town Hall, Napier (24529620482).jpg|Napier Town Hall following the earthquake File:The Wreck of HMS Orpheus on Manukau Bar, New Zealand ILN-1863.jpg|Illustration of the HMS Orpheus wreck File:Christ Church Cathedral - 2011 earthquake damage.jpg|Christchurch Cathedral following the earthquake File:TangiwaiMemorialPlaque1b.jpg|Tangiwai memorial plaque File:Wreck of the Tararua.jpg|Illustration of the SS Tararua wreck File:SS Wairarapa Wreck At Miners Head.jpg|SS Wairarapa wreck File:Charles-Blomfield-Mount-Tarawera-in-eruption-June-10-1886.jpg|Illustration of the Mount Tarawera eruption ==50 to 99 deaths==

File:Cometclipper.jpg|Clipper ship Fiery Star File:SS Penguin.jpg|SS Penguin File:Wreck of the American Ship General Grant.jpg|Wreck of the General Grant File:Mass grave at Stillwater for Brunner Mine disaster victimes.jpg|Burial of victims of the Brunner Mine disaster File:NZ Wahine Salvage.jpg|Salvage operations on the wreck of File:Cape Terawhiti.jpg|Cape Terawhiti, where the City of Dunedin sank File:Christchurch Mosque, New Zealand.jpg|The Al Noor Mosque, where the Christchurch mosque shootings began ==10 to 49 deaths==

File:SS Elingamite.jpg|SS Elingamite File:Ralph Mine Disaster (1914) (20477185083).jpg|Ralph Mine disaster File:Ballantynes Fire.jpg|Ballantyne's fire seen from ChristChurch Cathedral File:Seacliff Lunatic Asylum NZ.jpg|Seacliff asylum, before the fire File:Kaitangatamemorial.jpg|Kaitangata Mine disaster memorial File:SS Dunedin by Frederick Tudgay.JPG|Dunedin File:Marlborough (ship, 1876) - SLV H99.220-322.jpg|SS Marlborough File:StateLibQld 1 150003 Kaitawa (ship).jpg|MV Kaitawa File:MV Joyita 1955.jpg|MV Joyita File:StateLibQld 1 134266 Assaye (ship).jpg|SS Assaye File:Flight 441 memorial.JPG|NAC flight 441 memorial File:Hyde railway disaster cairn.jpg|Hyde railway disaster memorial File:Strongman Mine memorial.JPG|Strongman Mine disaster memorial File:Ōngarue Rail Disaster (1923) (27932081801).jpg|The Ongarue railway disaster File:Jabez peters.jpg|Restored grave of Dundonald's mate, Auckland Islands File:Octagon building fire 1879.jpg|Octagon building fire File:White Island Mining n.jpg|Remains of sulphur mine, White Island NOTE: The exact number of deaths in some early New Zealand shipwrecks is not fully recorded. There may be several shipwrecks not listed here which claimed ten or more lives. == Significant incidents resulting in fewer than 10 deaths == ==Pandemics and health crises==

==Significant incidents of New Zealanders being killed overseas==