Poland

POL · 2024 energy mix · renewables 11.6% · fossil fuels 87.0%

Threat reading 24 of 100, classified STABLE. 304 events recorded here in the last seven days, 304 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

Oil35.2%
Coal33.0%
Gas18.8%
Wind5.6%
Solar3.2%
Other renewables2.2%
Hydro0.5%

In 2024, renewables accounted for 11.6% and fossil fuels for 87.0%. On electricity traded with its neighbours, Poland 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 9 significant earthquakes in or just off Poland since 1619.

The deadliest was the 23 April 2022 magnitude 2.8 earthquake (Poland: Silesian: Jastrzebie-zdroj), which killed 10 people.

The strongest earthquake on record here was magnitude 4.2, on 29 November 2016 (Poland: Rudna).

The most recent entry is the 11 July 2024 magnitude 2.9 earthquake (Poland: Rybnik), which killed one person.

Across the entries that record a death toll, 31 people died.

DateWhatWhereToll
23 April 2022magnitude 2.8 earthquakePoland: Silesian: Jastrzebie-zdroj10 dead
29 November 2016magnitude 4.2 earthquakePoland: Rudna8 dead, damage under $1 million
5 May 2018magnitude 4.1 earthquakePoland: Silesian: Jastrzebie-zdroj5 dead, damage under $1 million
1 July 2019magnitude 3.1 earthquakePoland: Katowice3 dead
22 November 2008magnitude 4.1 earthquakeCzech Republic: Karvina2 dead, damage under $1 million
22 January 2019magnitude 3.9 earthquakePoland: Rydultowy1 dead
12 January 2019magnitude 3.7 earthquakePoland: Rudna1 dead, damage $1 to 5 million
11 July 2024magnitude 2.9 earthquakePoland: Rybnik1 dead
1619earthquakeGermany: Frankfurtdamage $5 to 25 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 Poland:

What the threat reading is made of

Conflict0
Unrest0
Security15
Spillover from neighbours23
Natural hazard35
Resilience83

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.