Norway
NOR · 2024 energy mix · renewables 70.9% · fossil fuels 28.2%
Threat reading 21 of 100, classified STABLE. 16 events recorded here in the last seven days, 16 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
| Hydro | 63.9% |
|---|---|
| Oil | 20.2% |
| Wind | 6.7% |
| Gas | 6.3% |
| Coal | 1.7% |
| Solar | 0.3% |
| Other renewables | 0.1% |
In 2024, renewables accounted for 70.9% and fossil fuels for 28.2%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Norway is a net exporter 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 2 significant earthquakes and 28 tsunamis in or just off Norway since 1731.
The deadliest was the 13 September 1936 tsunami (waves to 74 m) (Loen), which killed 73 people.
The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 5.9, on 31 August 1819 (Norway: Rana Region: Luroy).
The most recent entry is the 10 May 2015 tsunami (Northern Norway).
Across the entries that record a death toll, 249 people died.
| Date | What | Where | Toll |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 1936 | tsunami (waves to 74 m) | Loen | 73 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 16 January 1905 | tsunami (waves to 40.5 m) | Loen | 61 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 7 April 1934 | tsunami (waves to 62.3 m) | Tafjord | 41 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| February 1756 | tsunami (waves to 38 m) | Western Norway | 32 dead, 168 homes destroyed, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 8 January 1731 | tsunami | Western Norway | 17 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 1810 | tsunami | Northern Norway | 14 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 7 May 1959 | tsunami (waves to 4 m) | Northern Norway | 9 dead, damage under $1 million |
| 23 April 1888 | tsunami (waves to 7 m) | Mid-norway | 1 dead, damage $1 to 5 million |
| 29 April 1978 | tsunami (waves to 6.8 m) | Norway: Rissa | 1 dead, damage $5 to 25 million |
| 11 November 1936 | tsunami (waves to 74 m) | Lake Lovatnet | - |
| 21 September 1936 | tsunami (waves to 40 m) | Lake Lovatnet | - |
| 29 January 2014 | tsunami (waves to 8.2 m) | Statland | damage $5 to 25 million |
| 18 August 1983 | tsunami (waves to 7 m) | Western Norway | damage under $1 million |
| 19 March 1998 | tsunami (waves to 6 m) | Western Norway | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 8 May 1966 | tsunami (waves to 6 m) | Eastern Norway | damage $1 to 5 million |
| 31 August 1819 | magnitude 5.9 earthquake | Norway: Rana Region: Luroy | damage under $1 million |
| 28 April 1994 | tsunami (waves to 4 m) | Western Norway | damage under $1 million |
| 21 February 1987 | tsunami (waves to 3 m) | Western Norway | - |
| 24 January 1927 | magnitude 5.5 earthquake | Norway: North Sea | - |
| 6 October 1979 | tsunami (waves to 2 m) | Northern Norway | damage under $1 million |
| 9 January 1952 | tsunami (waves to 2 m) | Mid-norway | - |
| 30 July 2011 | tsunami (waves to 1.5 m) | Lysefjoren, Western Norway | damage under $1 million |
| 17 February 2011 | tsunami (waves to 0.3 m) | Svalbard | - |
| 10 May 2015 | tsunami | Northern Norway | damage under $1 million |
| 6 August 2011 | tsunami | Lysefjoren, Western Norway | - |
These are the 25 deadliest and largest of 30 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 Norway:
- 7 November 2026: Gale, yellow level, Torsvaag - Fruholmen, 2026-11-06T12:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-08T05:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Gale, yellow level, Fruholmen - Slettnes lighthouse, 2026-11-07T05:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-08T11:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Gale, yellow level, Slettnes lighthouse - Vardoe, 2026-11-07T12:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-08T12:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Gale, yellow level, Stoett - Melbu, 2026-11-08T01:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-08T15:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Gale, yellow level, Melbu - Hekkingen, 2026-11-08T02:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-08T17:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Ice, yellow level, Lowland areas and valleys in southeastern Norway, 2026-11-06T15:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-09T10:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Heavy rain, yellow level, Parts of Troms and Nordland, 2026-11-08T03:00:00+00:00, 2026-11-09T11:00:00+00:00
- 7 November 2026: Flood warning yellow level for nordlige deler av Nordland og Troms 2026-11-08
- 7 November 2026: Flood warning yellow level for nordlige deler av Nordland og Troms 2026-11-08
- 7 November 2026: Flood warning yellow level for nordlige deler av Nordland og Troms 2026-11-08
What the threat reading is made of
| Conflict | 0 |
|---|---|
| Unrest | 0 |
| Security | 10 |
| Spillover from neighbours | 5 |
| Natural hazard | 35 |
| Resilience | 89 |
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.
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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.