List of disasters in New Zealand by death toll

This is a list of New Zealand disasters by death toll, listing major peacetime disasters which occurred in New Zealand and its territories or involved a significant number of New Zealand citizens, in a specific incident, where the loss of life was 10 or more.

NOTE: The exact number of deaths in some early New Zealand shipwrecks is not fully recorded.

There may be several shipwrecks not listed here which claimed ten or more lives.