Risk events in North America, 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.
32516 events were recorded: 4 earthquakes, 28223 conflict events, and 4289 unrest events.
32516 eventsSources: gdelt
32516 events· North America
Conflict
- United States: 28551
- Canada: 1966
- Cuba: 628
- Mexico: 610
- Jamaica: 137
- Earthquake
- 4
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 0
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 28,223
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 4,289
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-01 | 1 | 0 | 1058 | 209 | 0 | 1042 |
| 2026-05-02 | 0 | 0 | 672 | 194 | 0 | 1130 |
| 2026-05-03 | 0 | 0 | 569 | 96 | 0 | 1265 |
| 2026-05-04 | 1 | 0 | 903 | 176 | 0 | 863 |
| 2026-05-05 | 0 | 0 | 1151 | 180 | 0 | 721 |
| 2026-05-06 | 0 | 0 | 1215 | 198 | 0 | 1130 |
| 2026-05-07 | 0 | 0 | 1041 | 175 | 0 | 1468 |
| 2026-05-08 | 0 | 0 | 1104 | 168 | 0 | 1552 |
| 2026-05-09 | 0 | 0 | 710 | 77 | 0 | 1370 |
| 2026-05-10 | 0 | 0 | 521 | 58 | 0 | 1143 |
| 2026-05-11 | 0 | 0 | 987 | 119 | 0 | 1127 |
| 2026-05-12 | 0 | 0 | 1108 | 160 | 0 | 1160 |
| 2026-05-13 | 0 | 0 | 1130 | 142 | 0 | 1309 |
| 2026-05-14 | 0 | 0 | 1146 | 169 | 0 | 1444 |
| 2026-05-15 | 0 | 0 | 1045 | 152 | 0 | 1694 |
| 2026-05-16 | 0 | 0 | 712 | 97 | 0 | 1757 |
| 2026-05-17 | 0 | 0 | 533 | 74 | 0 | 1271 |
| 2026-05-18 | 0 | 0 | 1056 | 124 | 0 | 1574 |
| 2026-05-19 | 0 | 0 | 1279 | 165 | 0 | 1481 |
| 2026-05-20 | 0 | 0 | 1165 | 174 | 0 | 1225 |
| 2026-05-21 | 0 | 0 | 1136 | 160 | 0 | 1043 |
| 2026-05-22 | 0 | 0 | 1042 | 162 | 0 | 1141 |
| 2026-05-23 | 2 | 0 | 634 | 79 | 0 | 1277 |
| 2026-05-24 | 0 | 0 | 564 | 62 | 0 | 1138 |
| 2026-05-25 | 0 | 0 | 659 | 101 | 0 | 1099 |
| 2026-05-26 | 0 | 0 | 1090 | 158 | 0 | 893 |
| 2026-05-27 | 0 | 0 | 1048 | 171 | 0 | 1027 |
| 2026-05-28 | 0 | 0 | 911 | 137 | 0 | 1388 |
| 2026-05-29 | 0 | 0 | 952 | 158 | 0 | 1790 |
| 2026-05-30 | 0 | 0 | 545 | 95 | 0 | 1114 |
| 2026-05-31 | 0 | 0 | 537 | 99 | 0 | 1016 |
Events
What is happening now
32516 events · newest first
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Palm Desert, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Palm Desert · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Glendale, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Glendale · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hanford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hanford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbia, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Columbia · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Minneapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Minneapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Canada
Severity 3 · Canada · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Haven, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New Haven · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Maple Grove, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Maple Grove · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Fairfield, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Fairfield · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Vacaville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Vacaville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Smyrna, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Smyrna · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in United States
Severity 3 · United States · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Roanoke, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Roanoke · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Worcester, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Worcester · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Richmond, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Richmond · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lexington-Fayette, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Lexington-Fayette · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Silver Spring, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Silver Spring · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Palm Coast, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Palm Coast · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Hartford, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Hartford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Concord, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Concord · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Louisville, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Louisville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Southaven, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Southaven · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Murfreesboro, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Murfreesboro · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yakima, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Yakima · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · United States · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Orleans, United States
Severity 3 · United States · New Orleans · 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.