Risk events in United Kingdom, May 2026
This page tracks significant risk events worldwide in near real time — earthquakes, disaster alerts, armed conflict, unrest and government travel-advisory changes — combining data from the USGS, GDACS, NASA EONET, UCDP, GDELT, ACLED and official travel-advisory sources. Browse what is happening now, or open the monthly and yearly archive for any country.
3776 events were recorded: 3293 conflict events and 483 unrest events.
3776 eventsSources: gdelt
3776 events· United Kingdom
ConflictUnrest
- Earthquake
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 3,293
- 49 in the list
- Unrest
- 483
- 1 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Signal
How the picture is moving
Bars: this period · Markers: 90-day daily baseline × days
Events by type
Against the 90-day baseline
Events per day
| Date | Earthquake | Disaster | Conflict | Unrest | Advisory | Fire hotspots |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 23 | 0 | 61 |
| 2026-05-02 | 0 | 0 | 123 | 16 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-05-03 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-04 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-05 | 0 | 0 | 148 | 21 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-05-06 | 0 | 0 | 135 | 26 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-07 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 21 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-08 | 0 | 0 | 117 | 13 | 0 | 32 |
| 2026-05-09 | 0 | 0 | 104 | 14 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-10 | 0 | 0 | 101 | 16 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 16 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-05-12 | 0 | 0 | 149 | 15 | 0 | 6 |
| 2026-05-13 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 12 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-05-14 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 23 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-15 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 22 | 0 | 8 |
| 2026-05-16 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 38 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-17 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 18 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 16 | 0 | 11 |
| 2026-05-19 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-05-20 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 17 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026-05-21 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 24 | 0 | 2 |
| 2026-05-22 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 13 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-05-23 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026-05-24 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 6 | 0 | 70 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 11 | 0 | 22 |
| 2026-05-26 | 0 | 0 | 113 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 2026-05-27 | 0 | 0 | 128 | 14 | 0 | 13 |
| 2026-05-28 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2026-05-29 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 19 | 0 | 4 |
| 2026-05-30 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 11 | 0 | 15 |
| 2026-05-31 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Events
What is happening now
3776 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Middlesbrough · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Liverpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Liverpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Edinburgh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Birmingham, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Birmingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oxford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Oxford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in St Helens, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · St Helens · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Newcastle upon Tyne · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gloucester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Gloucester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Gloucester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Gloucester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Dunfermline · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Belfast, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Belfast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Manchester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Wigan, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Wigan · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Brentwood, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Brentwood · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Slough, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Slough · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Southampton, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Southampton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Nottingham, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Nottingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Aberdeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Swansea, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Swansea · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Eastleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Salford, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Salford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Eastleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Blackpool, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Blackpool · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Oxford, United Kingdom
Severity 4 · Oxford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Swindon, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Swindon · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lowestoft, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lowestoft · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Crawley, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Crawley · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Lambeth, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Lambeth · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Bristol, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Bristol · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Eastleigh, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Eastleigh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Darlington, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Darlington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Braintree, United Kingdom
Severity 2 · Braintree · Source: gdelt
- Unrest
Demonstration in Manchester, United Kingdom
Severity 3 · Manchester · Source: gdelt
Reference
What these risk types mean
- Earthquake
- Significant earthquakes (magnitude 4.5+) reported by the USGS.
- Disaster
- Active floods, cyclones, volcanoes, droughts and wildfires reported by GDACS and NASA EONET.
- Conflict
- Armed conflict events above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from UCDP and GDELT.
- Unrest
- Unrest events — protests, strikes, riots — above a minimum severity or fatality floor, from GDELT and ACLED.
- Advisory
- Official government travel-advisory level changes for a country.