Hungary

HUN · 2024 energy mix · renewables 11.4% · fossil fuels 72.2%

Threat reading 17 of 100, classified STABLE. 49 events recorded here in the last seven days, 49 in the last thirty.

That number is computed from live feeds and moves. The live monitor is where to read it as of right now.

Where its energy comes from

Oil36.9%
Gas31.9%
Nuclear15.1%
Solar8.5%
Coal3.4%
Other renewables2.1%
Wind0.6%
Hydro0.2%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 11.4% and fossil fuels for 72.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Hungary is a net importer of electricity.

Sources under one per cent of the mix are left out of the table rather than listed as a row of zeroes. Percentages are shares of a country's primary energy, not of the power it generates.

Recorded history

NOAA's hazard records hold 4 significant earthquakes in or just off Hungary since 1763.

The deadliest was the 28 June 1763 magnitude 6.2 earthquake (Hungary: Gyor; Czechoslovakia: Komarom), which killed 83 people.

The most recent entry is the 31 December 2006 magnitude 4.1 earthquake (Hungary: Budapest).

Across the entries that record a death toll, 85 people died.

DateWhatWhereToll
28 June 1763magnitude 6.2 earthquakeHungary: Gyor; Czechoslovakia: Komarom83 dead, damage under $1 million
12 January 1956magnitude 5.8 earthquakeHungary2 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
23 November 2006magnitude 4.8 earthquakeHungary: Beregdarocdamage under $1 million
31 December 2006magnitude 4.1 earthquakeHungary: Budapestdamage under $1 million

A dash means NOAA recorded no number, not that nobody died. Older entries are fewer because fewer were written down, not because less happened.

Recorded history: NOAA NCEI hazard databases, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-22.

In the last 30 days

The most recent events our feeds placed in Hungary:

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict0
Unrest0
Security15
Spillover from neighbours15
Natural hazard15
Resilience76

Each is 0 to 100. Resilience runs the other way to the rest: a high number is a country better able to absorb a shock, not a country in more trouble.

Other countries tracked

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Where the data comes from

Energy mix, 2024: Our World in Data, energy dataset (https://github.com/owid/energy-data), compiled by Pablo Rosado, Hannah Ritchie, Edouard Mathieu and Max Roser from the Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. Licence: Our World in Data's own compilation is CC BY 4.0. The underlying figures stay under their original terms: Energy Institute Statistical Review of World Energy, U.S. EIA, Ember and The Shift Dataportal. The percentages shown here and the wording are ours. Threat reading: computed by Rift Web from the feeds listed on the sources page.