Risk events in North America, February 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.
169 events were recorded: 1 earthquake, 167 conflict events, and 1 unrest event.
169 eventsSources: ucdp · gdelt
169 events· North America
Conflict
- Mexico: 120
- United States: 36
- Haiti: 5
- Belize: 3
- Canada: 3
- Earthquake
- 1
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 167
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 1
- 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-01 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-02 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-03 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-04 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-05 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-06 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-07 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-08 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-09 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-10 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-11 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-12 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-13 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-16 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-18 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-19 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-20 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-21 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-22 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-23 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-24 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2026-02-25 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-26 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-27 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026-02-28 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Events
What is happening now
169 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Sioux Falls, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Sioux Falls · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Newport News, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Newport News · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Medicine Hat, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Medicine Hat · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Aguascalientes, Mexico
Severity 3 · Mexico · Aguascalientes · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cleveland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Cleveland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Thunder Bay, Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Thunder Bay · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pawtucket, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pawtucket · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Camden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Camden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lubbock, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lubbock · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kansas City, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kansas City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tacoma, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Tacoma · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Seattle, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Seattle · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Malden, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Malden · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Troy, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Troy · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Corvallis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Corvallis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Anchorage, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Anchorage · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Berwyn, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Berwyn · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cienfuegos, Cuba
Severity 3 · Cuba · Cienfuegos · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Kokomo, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Kokomo · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Non-state conflict in Cuauhtémoc, Mexico
1 fatality · Mexico · Cuauhtémoc · Source: ucdp
- Conflict
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.