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days since the last mass shooting in the United States.

537 in the past 365 days, an average of 1.47 a day.

As of Oct 16, 2026.

A mass shooting is a single outburst of violence in which four or more people are shot, not counting the shooter. That is the definition used by the Gun Violence Archive and the Mass Shooting Tracker. It is not the FBI's definition of mass murder, and it is not the narrower public-place standard that some newsrooms use, which counts roughly a dozen a year instead of several hundred. Every number on this page answers this question and no other.

Mass shootings: one bar per day, one dot per person

Oct 17, 2025 Oct 16, 2026

One bar per day, and one pixel per person. Orange from the baseline up is the number of people injured; red on top of it is the number killed, so the whole bar is everybody shot in a mass shooting that day. Over these 365 days 545 people were killed and 2,138 injured.

One horizontal rule per ten people, every fifth of them darker. The worst single day was July 5, 2026, when 89 people were shot. Flat grey marks a day with none, and 122 of these 365 days recorded no mass shooting at all.

Mass shootings, the past 365 days

537 mass shootings
545 killed in mass shootings
2,138 injured in mass shootings
243 days with a shooting, of 365
1.47 mass shootings a day

The register

40 most recent shown. The full record holds 7,684 incidents going back to 2013. Read the whole record.

The record

The counter has never reached 11. Its highest reading since records began in 2013 is 10, in the stretch ending September 5, 2013, when the database was new and thinly sourced. Since 2020, once coverage became consistent, it has never gone past 5, a run that ended April 24, 2020.

Every year on file

Incidents, people killed, and people injured, by year.
Year Incidents Killed Injured Relative scale
2013 367 528 1,241
2014 373 417 1,387
2015 405 499 1,479
2016 487 593 1,802
2017 441 590 2,027
2018 440 537 1,560
2019 513 617 1,930
2020 721 675 2,815
2021 841 919 3,164
2022 777 873 2,974
2023 777 932 2,987
2024 591 674 2,404
2025 503 523 2,068
2026 448 461 1,792

Every mass shooting on file

7,684 mass shootings on file
8,838 killed in mass shootings
29,630 injured in mass shootings
3,487 days with a shooting, of 5,037
1.53 mass shootings a day
2013 records begin

The record starts in 2013 because that is when anyone began systematically counting shootings that wound people rather than only those that kill them. Earlier years are not quiet; they are unmeasured.