Spanish Flu (1918)
50,000
COVID-19 (2019-)
8,504
North American heat wave (1936)
1,180
1953 polio outbreak
481
2009 BC heat wave
455
Swine flu (2009)
425
Great Lakes Storm of 1913
270
Matheson Fire (1916)
233
1942 Newfoundland marine disaster
203
Storm-caused sinking of the Southern Cross (1914)
173
Wreck of the Ocean Ranger (1982)
117
Hurricane Hazel (1954)
81
The 1914 Sealing Disaster
77
1941 Prairie Blizzard
76
The Great Porcupine Fire (1911)
73
Frank Slide (1903)
70
Great Lakes Storm of 1940
69