Five-Year Statistics

Total Incidents | 34 | 24 | 48 | 50 | 61

166 | 106 | 244 | 313 | 243 Casualties (Excluding Shooters) | 51 killed 115 wounded | 23 killed 83 wounded | 105 killed 139 wounded | 100 killed 213 wounded | 103 killed 140 wounded

Met “Mass Killing” Definition | 7 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 12

LE Officers Killed | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2

LE Officers Wounded | 5 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 5

LE Gunfire Exchange w/ Shooter | 5 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 17

34 Male | 22 Male | 48 Male | 48 Male | 60 Male Shooter Gender | 3 Female | 1 Female | 1 Female | 1 Female 1 Unknown

Shooters Wore Body Armor | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | 2

Shooters Committed Suicide | 10 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 11

Shooters Killed by LE | 5 | 5 | 12 | 7 | 14

Shooter Killed by Security | 2 | - | - | - | -

Shooters Killed by Citizen | - | - | - | 2 | 4

Shooters Apprehended by LE | 16 | 14 | 30 | 30 | 30

Shooters At Large | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1

*One shooter died in a motor vehicle crash and is not included in this table.

Over the five-year period, the states with the most active shooter incidents were Texas (25), California (20), and Georgia (13).

In contrast, Delaware, Hawaii, New Jersey, and South Dakota did not have any active shooter incidents.

Refers to incidents included in the FBI’s Active Shooter Incidents in the United States reports from 2021 to 2025.

This chart displays the yearly active shooter incident count from 2021 through 2025 indicating trends over time.

Despite a 42% increase in active shooter incidents from 2024, the five-year data shows a downward trend.

Over the course of five years, the average number of active shooter incidents per year was 43.4.

In 2025, the total number of incidents was lower than the five-year average.

Number of incidents within the five-year period: • | 2021: 61

| 2022: 50

| 2023: 48

| 2024: 24

| 2025: 34

This chart displays the yearly casualty count from 2021 through 2025, separated into victims killed, victims wounded and total casualties.

It shows trends over time, highlighting changes in each category across the years.

Over the past five years, there were 1,072 casualties (382 killed, 690 wounded), with both fatalities and injuries showing similar trends.

This bar chart shows the number of active shooter incidents that occurred each month from 2021 through 2025, with separate bars for each year.

Based on the five-year data, October through February had less active shooter attacks compared to March through September.

June had the most incidents (29) which averaged 5.8 per year, followed by April (28) with an average of 5.6 per year.

In contrast, October had the fewest incidents (8) which averaged 1.6 per year with both February (10) and December (10), averaging 2.0 per year.

Average number of incidents by month: • January: 2.6 • February: 2.0 • March: 3.2 • April: 5.6 • May: 4.6 • June: 5.8 • July: 4.4 • August: 5.0 • September: 4.0 • October: 1.6 • November: 2.6 • December: 2.0

This bar chart shows the number of active shooter incidents that occurred each day of the week from 2021 through 2025, with separate bars for each year.

From 2021 to 2025, Monday had the highest number of incidents (40) with an average of 8.0 per year, while Friday had the lowest number of incidents (19) with an average of 3.8 per year.

Sunday: 5.6

Monday: 8.0

Tuesday: 5.4

Wednesday: 7.6

Thursday: 5.4

Friday: 3.8

Saturday: 7.6

This bar chart shows the number of active shooter incidents that occurred by time of day from 2021 through 2025, with separate bars for each year.

Over the five-year period, most attacks (71) occurred between 12:00 p.m. and 5:59 p.m., whereas the fewest number of attacks (35) occurred between 12:00 a.m. and 5:59 a.m. Average

12:00 a.m. to 5:59 a.m.: 7.0

6:00 a.m. to 11:59 a.m.: 11.6

12:00 p.m. to 5:59 p.m.: 14.2

6:00 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.: 10.6

This stacked bar chart displays the proportion of mass killing active shooter incidents compared to the total active shooter incidents for each year from 2021 to 2025. Each bar represents a year, divided to show the percentage of incidents classified as mass killings versus other active shooter events.

Over the past five years, 50 of the 217 incidents (23%) were classified as mass killings, averaging 10 per year.

This bar chart shows the number of active shooter incidents across each location category from 2021 through 2025, with separate bars for each year illustrating how incident counts vary by location.

From 2021 to 2025, active shooting attacks were disproportionately higher in the open space (89) and commerce (78) location categories, whereas the house of worship (7) and health care (4) location categories had the least number of attacks.

Average number of Incidents by location category: • Open Space: 17.8 • Commerce: 15.6 • Education: 3.4 • Government: 2.8 • Residence: 1.6 • House of Worship: 1.4 • Health Care: 0.8

This bar chart shows the total number of incidents within each location category from 2021 through 2025 on the left, and a breakdown of individuals killed and wounded by location category on the right.

4 | Health Health Care Care | 7 | 8

7 | House of House of Worship Worship | 10 | 44

8 | Residence Residence | 12 | 19

14 | Government Government | 18 | 41

17 | Education Education | 52 | 89

78 | Commerce Commerce | 200 | 254

89 | Open Space Open Space | 83 | 235

Over the five-year period, commerce had the highest number of casualties (454) and health care had the lowest (15).

Although the average casualty count per incident was 4.9, the education (8.3), house of worship (7.7), and commerce (5.8) location categories exceeded the average number of casualties per incident during the five-year period.

This 100% stacked horizontal bar chart proportionally shows how active shooter incidents from 2021 through 2025 were resolved each year, with the length of each colored segment indicating the number of shooters apprehended, killed, died by suicide or through other outcomes.

2025 | 16 | 7 | 10 | 1

2024 | 14 | 5 | 6

2023 | 30 | 12 | 7

2022 | 30 | 9 | 9 | 2

2021* | 30 | 19 | 11 | 1

*One shooter died in a vehicle crash and one remains at large from 2021; two shooters remain at large from 2022; one shooter remains at large from 2025.

Over the past five years, 55% of the shooters (120) were apprehended, 24% were killed (52), 20% died by suicide (43), and 2% remain at large (4).

This stacked bar chart shows the proportion of incidents where law enforcement was involved in an exchange of gunfire compared to those without an exchange from 2021 through 2025.

This bar chart compares the number of incidents in which law enforcement exchanged gunfire with a shooter to the number of law enforcement casualties resulting from the exchange of gunfire from 2021 through 2025.

17 | 2021 2021 | 1 | 3

9 | 2022 2022 | 1 | 16

12 2023 2023 2 11

6 | 2024 2024 | 1 | 5

5 | 2025 2025 | 3

From 2021 to 2025, law enforcement exchanged gunfire with the shooter in 49 of the 217 incidents (23%).

Overall, these exchanges declined from 28% in 2021 to 15% in 2025.

Between 2021 and 2025, there were 43 law enforcement casualties, including five fatalities, resulting from an exchange of gunfire.

This bar chart shows how active shooter incidents involving an exchange of gunfire with law enforcement were resolved each year from 2021 through 2025, with counts for shooters apprehended, killed, or who died by suicide.

As a result of gunfire exchange with law enforcement, 63% of shooters (31) were killed, 27% were apprehended (13), and 10% died by suicide (five).

This table summarizes incidents involving security intervention from 2021 through 2025, including shooter resolution and the number of security personnel injured during the intervention.

Over the five-year period, attacks involving security intervention accounted for 4% of all incidents (8), resulting in five security personnel casualties.

This table summarizes incidents involving civilian intervention from 2021 through 2025, including shooter resolution and the number of civilians injured during the intervention.

Over the five-year period, attacks involving civilian intervention accounted for 12% of all incidents (26), resulting in 12 civilian intervention casualties.

This chart shows the number of active shooter incidents and total casualties each year from 2000 through 2025.

From 2000 to 2025, a total of 590 incidents accounted for 4,087 casualties (1,469 killed and 2,618 wounded), averaging 6.9 casualties per incident.

In 2017, the active shooter attack at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada accounted for 547 casualties.