International disaster databases and catalogs provide a baseline for researchers, governments, communities, and organizations to understand the risk of a particular place, analyze broader trends in disaster risk, and justify investments in mitigation. Perhaps because Singapore is routinely identified as one of the safest countries in the world, Singapore’s past disasters have not been studied extensively with few events captured in major global databases such as EM-DAT. In this article, we fill the disaster data gap for postwar Singapore (1950–2020) using specified metrics through an archival search, review of literature, and analysis of secondary sources. We present four key lessons from cataloging these events. First, we expand Singapore’s disaster catalog to 39 events in this time period and quantify the extent of this data gap. Second, we identify the mitigating actions that have followed past events that contribute to Singapore’s present-day safety. Third, we discuss how these past events uncover continuities among vulnerability bearers in Singapore. Last, we identify limitations of a disaster catalog when considering future risks. In expanding the disaster catalog, this case study of Singapore supports the need for comprehensive understanding of past disasters in order to examine current and future disaster resilience.

国际灾难数据库和目录为研究人员，政府，社区和组织提供了一个基准，使他们能够了解特定地点的风险，分析灾难风险的更广泛趋势并为缓解风险的投资辩护。也许是因为新加坡通常被确定为世界上最安全的国家之一，因此新加坡的过去灾难并未得到广泛研究，很少有主要全球数据库（例如EM-DAT）中捕获到的事件发生。在本文中，我们通过档案搜索，文献综述和辅助数据分析，使用指定的指标来填补战后新加坡（1950–2020年）的灾难数据缺口。我们提供了对这些事件进行分类的四个主要课程。首先，我们在这段时间内将新加坡的灾难目录扩展到39个事件，并量化了这一数据缺口的程度。第二，我们确定了过去发生的事件后所采取的缓解措施，这些事件对新加坡当今的安全做出了贡献。第三，我们讨论这些过去的事件如何揭示新加坡脆弱性承担者之间的连续性。最后，我们在考虑未来风险时确定灾难目录的局限性。在扩展灾难目录时，新加坡的案例研究支持了对过去灾难的全面了解，以便检查当前和未来的灾难恢复能力。