Iran

IRN · 2024 energy mix · renewables 1.4% · fossil fuels 98.1%

Threat reading 68 of 100, classified HIGH THREAT, FRAGILE. 6 events recorded here in the last seven days, 6 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

Gas68.4%
Oil29.1%
Hydro1.3%
Coal0.5%
Nuclear0.5%
Wind0.1%
Solar0.1%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 1.4% and fossil fuels for 98.1%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Iran is close to balanced on electricity trade.

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 382 significant earthquakes and 4 tsunamis in or just off Iran since 662.

The deadliest was the 22 December 856 magnitude 7.9 earthquake (Iran: Damghan, Qumis), which killed 200,000 people.

The most recent entry is the 5 December 2024 magnitude 5.4 earthquake (Iran: Khuzestan).

Across the entries that record a death toll, 1,010,623 people died.

DateWhatWhereToll
22 December 856magnitude 7.9 earthquakeIran: Damghan, Qumis200,000 dead, damage over $25 million
18 November 1727earthquakeIran: Tabriz77,000 dead, damage over $25 million
1101magnitude 6.5 earthquakeIran: Khorasan60,000 dead
8 January 1780magnitude 7.7 earthquakeIran: Tabriz50,000 dead, damage over $25 million
4 November 1042magnitude 7.6 earthquakeIran: Tabriz50,000 dead, damage over $25 million
15 July 850earthquakeIran: Rey (Ray)45,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
26 April 1721magnitude 7.7 earthquakeIran: Tabriz40,000 dead, damage over $25 million
20 June 1990magnitude 7.3 earthquakeIran: Rasht, Qazvin, Zanjan, Rudbar, Manjil40,000 dead, 100,000 homes destroyed, $7,200 million damage
20 June 1990tsunami (waves to 2 m)Caspian Sea40,000 dead, 100,000 homes destroyed, $7,200 million damage
7 June 1755earthquakeIran: N: Tabriz, Kashan40,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
21 August 1042earthquakeIran: Tabriz40,000 dead, damage over $25 million
26 April 662earthquakeIran: Qumis: Semnan, Damghan40,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
26 December 2003magnitude 6.6 earthquakeIran: Southeastern: Bam, Baravat31,000 dead, $500 million damage
30 January 1778earthquakeIran: Kashan30,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
5 February 1641earthquakeIran: Tabriz, Kurdistan30,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
21 October 1336magnitude 7.6 earthquakeIran: Khaf20,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
16 September 1978magnitude 7.4 earthquakeIran: Tabas20,000 dead, 15,000 homes destroyed, $50 million damage
18 November 871magnitude 6.8 earthquakeIran: Saimareh20,000 dead, damage over $25 million
17 November 1893magnitude 6.6 earthquakeIran: Quchan, Mashhad, Bojnurd18,000 dead, damage over $25 million
11 April 1008magnitude 6.5 earthquakeIran-iraq: Dainawar16,000 dead, damage over $25 million
22 April 1853earthquakeIran: Shiraz13,000 dead, damage over $25 million
1 September 1962magnitude 7.2 earthquakeIran: Buyin-zara12,225 dead, 21,310 homes destroyed, $30 million damage
18 November 1667earthquakeIran: Shirvan, Shamkha12,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
4 May 1639earthquakeIran: Qazvin12,000 dead, damage $5 to 25 million
31 August 1968magnitude 7.1 earthquakeIran: Dasht-e-bayaz10,488 dead, 12,000 homes destroyed, $35 million damage

These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 386 entries. 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 Iran:

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict33
Unrest0
Security25
Spillover from neighbours20
Natural hazard85
Resilience59

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

All countries with a page.

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.