The textbook "Fundamentals of monitoring and forecasting of emergency situations" is compiled in accordance with the work program of the discipline and is intended for students of the training direction 20.03.01 Technosphere safety. The textbook contains theoretical material on the main issues of monitoring and forecasting of emergency situations. It is aimed at the formation of students' knowledge of the regulatory and legal foundations of monitoring, forecasting and prevention of emergencies, methods of forecasting various phenomena, the ability to develop operational forecasts of natural phenomena.