This list of disasters in Missouri by death toll includes major disasters (excluding acts of war) that occurred in Missouri.
100 or more deaths
FatalitiesYearArticleTypeLocationComments255+18961896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornadoTornadoSt. Louis1622011Joplin tornadoTornadoJoplin1141981Hyatt Regency walkway collapseWalkway collapseKansas City100+1852Saluda disasterShipwreckLexington
50 to 99 deaths
FatalitiesYearArticleTypeLocationComments991880Marshfield CycloneTornadoMarshfield851927Poplar Bluff tornadoTornado outbreakPoplar Bluff8419271927 St. Louis tornadoTornadoSt. Louis721957Warrenton Nursing Home fireStructure fireWarrenton67 (Missouri)1917May–June 1917 tornado outbreak sequenceTornado outbreakStatewide59 (Missouri)1957Tornado outbreak of May 19–22, 1957Tornado outbreakSoutheast Missouri
10 to 49 deaths
FatalitiesYearArticleTypeLocationComments451962Continental Airlines Flight 11TerrorismUnion Township, Putnam County38 (Missouri)19571957 Ruskin Heights tornadoTornadoKansas City areaPart of the 1957 outbreak381973Ozark Air Lines Flight 809Plane crashNormandy (St. Louis Lambert International Airport)30+1855Gasconade Bridge train disasterBridge collapseGasconade301916Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916Tornado outbreakStatewide301955American Airlines Flight 476Plane crashFort Leonard Wood281951Great Flood of 1951FloodEastern MissouriHistorically difficult to isolate the casualties in Kansas from the casualties in Missouri, the casualties just in Missouri may be lower.27 (Missouri)1993Great Flood of 1993FloodStatewide231949Cape Girardeau tornadoTornadoCape Girardeau22 (Missouri)2003Tornado outbreak sequence of May 3–11, 2003Tornado outbreakCentral Missouri211959Crescent–St. Louis tornadoTornadoSt. Louis area211877Old Southern Hotel fireStructure fireSt. Louis201978Coates House FireStructure fireKansas City181917Ellsinore-Drum tornadoTornadoCarter, Wayne, and Bollinger countiesPart of the 1917 tornado outbreak1818701870 St. Charles Bridge disasterBridge collapseSt. Charles172018Table Rock Lake duck boat accidentShipwreckTable Rock Lake near Branson15 (Missouri)20082008 Picher–Neosho tornadoTornadoNewton County132004Corporate Airlines Flight 5966Plane crashAdair County131955American Airlines Flight 711Plane crashSpringfield–Branson National Airport1220262026 Butler PAC P-750 crashPlane crashButler, Bates County1119251925 Tri-State tornado outbreakTornado outbreakStatewide111952Cooter–Cottonwood Point tornadoTornadoPemiscot County101917Manes-Anutt tornadoTornadoWright, Texas, Phelps, and Dent countiesPart of the 1917 tornado outbreak101917Success-Melzo tornadoTornadoSE central MissouriPart of the 1917 tornado outbreak
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