List of disasters in Massachusetts by death toll

This is a list of known disasters that have occurred in Massachusetts, organized by death toll.

Historically documented events that caused 10 or more deaths are included.

Notes:

Ruins of the Great Boston Fire of 1872

Aftermath of the Grover Shoe Factory disaster (1905)

Great Chelsea fire of 1908

Streetcar involved in the Summer Street Bridge disaster (1916) being raised from the river

Wreckage of the Great Molasses Flood (1919)

Damage from the 1953 Worcester tornado

Andrea Doria sinking (1956)

Wreckage of Eastern Air Lines Flight 375 (1960)

Wreckage of the 1967 Nantucket radar plane crash, in a hangar after recovery