According to Disasters of Atlantic Canada: Stories of Courage and Chaos, by Vernon Oickle, the Halifax Explosion killed over 1,900 people. Another 100 would succumb to injuries in the following months. Approximately 9,000 were hurt in the blast. However, the true death toll may never be known due to the magnitude of the disaster.

Property damage was both immediate and immense. Most of Halifax's North End, an area of 130 hectares (half of a square mile), was completely destroyed. Halifax's Richmond district and Tufts Cove on the other side of the Narrows in Dartmouth took the full force of the blast. As recounted by Sally M. Walker, author of Blizzard of Glass, every building between the harbor, Fort Needham, Young Street, and Rector Street was reduced to rubble. Vital centers of industry such as the Acadia Sugar Refinery, the Richmond Printing Plant, and the Hillis Foundry were transformed into smoking heaps of blackened bricks in the blink of an eye. All of Richmond's churches, schools, and its orphanage were destroyed. In all, 12,000 buildings within a 16-mile radius were damaged.

Shattering windows nearly 50 miles away from the explosion, the blast could be felt as far away as Sydney, Cape Breton, 270 miles northeast of Halifax.

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