Risk events in United States, August 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.
19978 events were recorded: 2 earthquakes, 126 disaster alerts, 18202 conflict events, and 1648 unrest events.
19978 eventsSources: gdelt
19978 events· United States
Conflict
- Earthquake
- 2
- 0 in the list
- Disaster
- 126
- 0 in the list
- Conflict
- 18,202
- 50 in the list
- Unrest
- 1,648
- 0 in the list
- Advisory
- 0
- 0 in the list
Events
What is happening now
19978 events · newest first
- Conflict
Military force used in Lansing, United States
Severity 3 · Lansing · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dayton, United States
Severity 3 · Dayton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Pearland, United States
Severity 3 · Pearland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Cambridge, United States
Severity 3 · Cambridge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Columbus, United States
Severity 3 · Columbus · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Huntington Park, United States
Severity 3 · Huntington Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oshkosh, United States
Severity 3 · Oshkosh · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Casper, United States
Severity 3 · Casper · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · Centreville · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Normal, United States
Severity 3 · Normal · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Washington, United States
Severity 4 · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Orem, United States
Severity 3 · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in McKinney, United States
Severity 3 · McKinney · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Oak Park, United States
Severity 3 · Oak Park · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Saint Cloud, United States
Severity 3 · Saint Cloud · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Baton Rouge, United States
Severity 3 · Baton Rouge · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Modesto, United States
Severity 3 · Modesto · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Davis, United States
Severity 3 · Davis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Ames, United States
Severity 3 · Ames · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Elkhart, United States
Severity 3 · Elkhart · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Indianapolis, United States
Severity 3 · Indianapolis · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Haverhill, United States
Severity 3 · Haverhill · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Grand Island, United States
Severity 2 · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Highland, United States
Severity 3 · Highland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Bedford, United States
Severity 3 · New Bedford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Grand Island, United States
Severity 3 · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Nuclear alert in Scranton, United States
Severity 4 · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Washington, United States
Severity 3 · Washington · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in New Bedford, United States
Severity 3 · New Bedford · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Lakeland, United States
Severity 3 · Lakeland · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Killeen, United States
Severity 3 · Killeen · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Harrisburg, United States
Severity 3 · Harrisburg · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Orem, United States
Severity 2 · Orem · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Dallas, United States
Severity 3 · Dallas · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Scranton, United States
Severity 3 · Scranton · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Yuba City, United States
Severity 3 · Yuba City · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military posture change in Grand Island, United States
Severity 2 · Grand Island · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Framingham, United States
Severity 3 · Framingham · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Tempe, United States
Severity 3 · Tempe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Assault in Tempe, United States
Severity 2 · Tempe · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Warwick, United States
Severity 3 · Warwick · Source: gdelt
- Conflict
Military force used in Centreville, United States
Severity 3 · Centreville · 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.