A debris field is any area, non-dependent of locale, space, or contour, that contains the debris of wreckage, impact, sinking, or other material that once constituted a complete object.

Debris fields can be found at the site of air crashes, water vessel sinking, explosions of buildings, collapses, and other events that render a whole entity into components, pieces, or other non-whole items. Normally, this is started with an event, or the result, rarely the causal factor, that led to the destruction, damage, or partial violent dismantling of a whole structure. The term came into common usage in discussions of the Titanic wreckage which was spread out over a wide area on the sea floor.