Belarus
Level criticalupdated 5 min agoStrongly advised against right now — follow official advisories.
What are the main risks in Belarus?
Over the last 12 months, our sensors recorded 14 events there, including 13 severe. The most frequent: Storm, Flood, Heatwave.
Is there a government travel advisory for Belarus?
Yes — of the 19 governments we track, 16 advise against travel and 0 urge extra caution. The detail is in the security section below.
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Belarus: current alerts and safety news
The alerts open right now, all sources combined — weather, seismic, satellite, health and state advisories.
Last 90 days
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- Moderate / High
- Critical
- N/A
Colour = the country level observed that day (highest of the day). N/A: before our records began.
Is it safe to travel to Belarus?
Start here: the United Kingdom advises against all travel to Belarus, the whole country, at its highest level. That is the strongest warning a state issues, and it is not limited to certain areas. Beyond that, the record is thin. Eight events over the last 12 months, seven of them severe: three storms, two floods, one heat episode, one thunderstorm, plus the advisory itself. The weather hazards recorded here are summer ones. All hazards taken together, six of the eight fall in August, one in May, one in July. On homicides, the rate is 2.4 per 100,000 against a world median of 2.1. That number counts homicides only. It says nothing about theft or scams, and no comparable world figure exists for those. For day-to-day security, the advisory above is the honest reference.
What it changes for a nomad
Treat the advisory as the starting point, not a footnote. When a state tells you not to go at all, a stay of several weeks is not an ordinary plan. Ask your insurer in writing what a do-not-travel notice does to your cover, because many policies stop there. Assume consular help is limited and slow, and assume the same for anything you would normally sort out on the spot. If you still go, summer is when the record fills up, with storms, one thunderstorm, one heat episode and the floods. Two alerts are open right now, so read the state notice again on the day you leave and while you are there. Keep your work off single points of failure: offline copies of your documents, a second way to get online, money you can reach without one app. Nothing in this data supports treating a long stay here as routine.
Written with the help of AI from Mira Safe's sourced data on August 21, 2026 · does not replace local guidance How this analysis is produced →
1 earlier analysis
August 21, 2026
Over the last 12 months, Belarus has recorded 8 notable events. Most are natural hazards like storms, floods, heatwaves, and thunderstorms. Storms occurred 3 times, with all being severe. Floods happened twice, with one severe event. A heatwave and a thunderstorm each appeared once, both severe. Travel advisories were issued once, and it was severe. The country has a homicide rate of 2.4 per 100k, slightly above the world median of 2.1. No armed conflict or recent major crises were recorded. The busiest month for hazards is August, with 6 events, while May and July are quieter. The official UK travel advisory strongly recommends avoiding all travel to Belarus, citing safety concerns.
To watch right now
- Two alerts are open right now, which is not the case in an ordinary month here; check the official notice on the day you travel, not a week before.
- The advice against all travel applies to the whole country at the top level and is currently in force, so any booking made earlier deserves a second look.
To watch as a rule
- Summer storms: three recorded over the last 12 months, all of them severe, plus one thunderstorm.
- Flooding: two events over the last 12 months, one of them severe.
- Heat: one episode recorded, a summer hazard here.
- A thin record overall, eight events in 12 months, so little was captured; that is not the same as safety.
Good reflexes
- Read the UK advisory page in full before you book, then again on the morning you leave.
- Get your insurer to confirm in writing whether the policy still pays out under a do-not-travel notice.
- Register your stay with your own country's consular service and save the contact offline.
- Keep passport, visa and insurance as both paper copies and offline files on your phone.
- Before any trip out of the city in summer, check the weather notice that same morning.
Belarus: travel advisories and areas to avoid
What the 19 tracked governments officially advise for this country — converging or not. The everyday reference.
Zones cited by government advisories
Advised against (all travel)
- Brest
- Gomel
Flags show which of the tracked governments cite each zone. Red takes precedence over orange.
- Advised against by 4+ states
- Advised against by 1 state
- Advised against unless essential
Belarus: quality of life and safety in figures
Everyday living conditions, on the few indicators published for every country in the world. Background for a stay — not what is happening today.
Favourable vs the world median
- Air quality (PM2.5): 12 µg/m³ (median 17.3)
- Safely managed drinking water: 93.1 % of the population (median 80.5)
- Road deaths: 7.6 per 100,000 people (median 15.2)
- Physicians: 4.7 per 1,000 people (median 1.7)
- Hospital beds: 9.8 per 1,000 people (median 2.4)
- New displacements, disasters: 0.01 per 1,000 people (median 0.73)
Watch out vs the world median
- Homicides: 2.4 per 100,000 people (median 2.3)
Below the world median (17.3) · lower is better
WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³
Above the world median (80.5) · higher is better
Below the world median (15.2) · lower is better
Above the world median (1.7) · higher is better
Above the world median (2.4) · higher is better
Close to the world median (74.7) · higher is better
Below the world median (0.73) · lower is better
48 people in total
40,794 people in total
1,470 asylum seekers
Security and violence
Structural risk (INFORM) · 2026
2.4/10 — low
Composite index by the JRC (European Commission): hazards & exposure, vulnerability, coping capacity. Structural background — not today's alerts.
Close to the world median (2.3).
Source: UNODC, via the World Bank (CC BY 4.0)
Homicides are the only crime figure that exists worldwide under an open licence. It says nothing about theft or scams — no reliable worldwide data exists for those; official state advisories are the honest day-to-day reference.
National figures, published once a year and often a few years behind: an order of magnitude for daily life, never the situation right now. Sources: World Bank (CC BY 4.0) · UNHCR
Belarus: natural disasters and risks in figures
Last 30 days · 2 events
Eventsof which severe- Flood22 2 severe
Last 12 months · 14 events
Eventsof which severe- Storm77 7 severe
- Flood43 3 severe
- Heatwave11 1 severe
- Internet outage11 1 severe
- Travel advisory11 1 severe
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What travellers lived
What people who stayed there report. A feeling is not a risk level: these figures complement official data, they don't replace it.
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