Active shooters in the United States

America's crime record

incidents, 2025 · Up 42% from 2024

Timeline

Attacks the FBI counts as active shooter incidents: one or more people killing or trying to kill people in a populated area, nearly all with guns, and the people killed and wounded in them, civilians and officers, as the FBI printed them (the 20-year review for 2000 to 2019, each later report after).

Source and method

Gang, drug, domestic, barricade, and crossfire shootings are left out by design. The FBI finds them in news and its own files; police agencies do not report them. One attack can move a year's wounded by hundreds. A different count from mass killings; the two overlap and are never added.

No rate. An incident is not something that happens to a person, so incidents take no rate per resident; the people killed and wounded have one, per 1 million residents.

FBI active shooter reports · Calendar year · 2000 to 2025

2000One study (FBI and ALERRT, 2014) found these incidents years later from open sources; not reported year by year.
2000The 20-year review (2021) added 28 incidents to the 305 published, without rechecking the 305; a year's count depends on the edition read. Pages show the review's figures.
2014Two-year reports for 2014 to 2017, then a report each year, each published the next year or so; prior years are not revised.
2018"Other" location added; wounded counts injuries not from gunfire, noted incident by incident (a general footnote from 2021).
2020Summaries stop naming shooters; sex and age read from "an identified male shooter, 26".
2022The reports print a nonbinary category from 2022; CrimeDB reads it as no sex recorded.
2025Led by the FBI's Office of Law Enforcement Engagement; summaries reformatted.

Breakdown

Shooters by sex, 2000 to 2025

Shooters by sex, 2000 to 2025
Male	95%570	570
Female	4%21	21
Sex unknown	2%12	12

All 603 shooters, 2000 to 2025, every year added. Each shooter as CrimeDB reads the FBI's incident summaries; the FBI prints these traits only as totals.

FBI active shooter reports, 2000 to 2025

Every figure as a table

Active shooters, incidents, by year

Year	Count	Note
2025	34
2024	24
2023	48
2022	50
2021	61
2020	40
2019	30
2018	30
2017	31
2016	20
2015	20
2014	20
2013	19
2012	21
2011	13
2010	27
2009	19
2008	9
2007	14
2006	12
2005	11
2004	5
2003	12
2002	7
2001	10
2000	3

No rate. An incident is not something that happens to a person, so incidents take no rate per resident; the people killed and wounded have one, per 1 million residents.

FBI active shooter reports · Calendar year

Active shooters, people killed, by year

Year	Count	Rate
2025	51	0.1
2024	23	0.1
2023	105	0.3
2022	100	0.3
2021	103	0.3
2020	38	0.1
2019	102	0.3
2018	86	0.3
2017	143	0.4
2016	83	0.3
2015	56	0.2
2014	36	0.1
2013	50	0.2
2012	90	0.3
2011	45	0.1
2010	38	0.1
2009	65	0.2
2008	33	0.1
2007	69	0.2
2006	26	0.1
2005	30	0.1
2004	17	0.1 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)
2003	33	0.1
2002	18	0.1 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)
2001	26	0.1
2000	16	0.1 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)

Rate: People per 1 million residents of the United States that year (Census Bureau estimates). Per million, not per 100,000 as elsewhere on this page, since these are rare.

Grey: fewer than 20 cases.

FBI active shooter reports · Calendar year

Active shooters, people wounded, by year

Year	Count	Rate
2025	115	0.3
2024	83	0.2
2023	139	0.4
2022	213	0.6
2021	140	0.4
2020	126	0.4
2019	156	0.5
2018	139	0.4
2017	591	1.8
2016	131	0.4
2015	78	0.2
2014	61	0.2
2013	52	0.2
2012	118	0.4
2011	66	0.2
2010	53	0.2
2009	78	0.3
2008	34	0.1
2007	57	0.2
2006	28	0.1
2005	31	0.1
2004	9	0 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)
2003	22	0.1
2002	24	0.1
2001	59	0.2
2000	2	0 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)

Rate: People per 1 million residents of the United States that year (Census Bureau estimates). Per million, not per 100,000 as elsewhere on this page, since these are rare.

Grey: fewer than 20 cases.

FBI active shooter reports · Calendar year

Shooters by sex, 2000 to 2025

Sex	Count	Share
Male	570	95%
Female	21	4%
Sex unknown	12	2%

All 603 shooters, 2000 to 2025, every year added. Each shooter as CrimeDB reads the FBI's incident summaries; the FBI prints these traits only as totals.

FBI active shooter reports, 2000 to 2025

Shooters by age, 2000 to 2025

Age	Count	Share
12 to 17	42	7%
18 to 24	139	23%
25 to 34	154	26%
35 to 49	156	26%
50 to 64	73	12%
65 and older	24	4%
Age unknown	15	3%

All 603 shooters, 2000 to 2025, every year added. Each shooter as CrimeDB reads the FBI's incident summaries; the FBI prints these traits only as totals.

FBI active shooter reports, 2000 to 2025

Shooters by race, 2010 to 2025

Race	Count	Of which placed by CrimeDB	Share	Rate
White+MENA	139	91	28%	0
Black	64	50	13%	0.1
Hispanic	28	20	6%	0
Asian+NHPI	13	4	3%	0 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)
AIAN	2	0	<1%	0.1 (fewer than 20 cases; the rate may swing a lot.)
Race unknown	254	0	51%	–

Hispanic is of any race; the other groups are not Hispanic. White+MENA includes Middle Eastern and North African people.

All 500 shooters, 2010 to 2025, every year added. AP's codes: Asian and Pacific Islander one code; Other is race unknown. The FBI prints no shooter's race. A shooter has a race where the incident links to one AP case, as AP recorded it. Offenders with no race recorded are placed by CrimeDB's name-based model (crimedb-bifsg-v2: first name, surname, and the county's residents), the lighter part of each bar; with AP's recorded race hidden, its sums land within 2% of AP's counts for White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian+NHPI offenders, though it puts about one person in five in the wrong group. AIAN and two or more races can't be checked and stay race unknown, as do offenders with no name. The FBI's summaries stop naming shooters in 2020, so the model reaches only earlier years. Rate: shooters per 1 million people in the group; – means no rate for that group.

Of these shooters, 51% have no recorded race. They are in no group's rate, so each rate is a floor.

FBI active shooter reports; CrimeDB's name-based race model (crimedb-bifsg-v2), 2010 to 2025

Grey: fewer than 20 cases.

Incidents by place, 2000 to 2025

Place	Count	Share
Business	250	42%
Open space	148	25%
School or college	79	13%
Government property	47	8%
Home	24	4%
House of worship	22	4%
Health care	19	3%
Other place	1	<1%

All 590 incidents, 2000 to 2025, every year added. CrimeDB's reading of the FBI's incident summaries, which matches the printed totals above.

FBI active shooter reports, 2000 to 2025

Incidents by weapon, 2000 to 2025

Weapon	Count	Share
Handgun	336	57%
Rifle	104	18%
More than one kind of weapon	92	16%
Shotgun	35	6%
Gun, type not given	23	4%

All 590 incidents, 2000 to 2025, every year added. CrimeDB's reading of the FBI's incident summaries, which matches the printed totals above.

FBI active shooter reports, 2000 to 2025

How we count

Age: Age at the offense, in the same bands on every page.
Sex: Biological sex: female or male.
Race and ethnicity: Six groups, the same on every page. Hispanic is of any race; the other five are not Hispanic, so no one is in two.
Relationship: The victim's relationship to the offender, as police recorded it.
Counting once: Each person counts once in each row they fit, so rows can add up to more than the total.
Unknowns: Unknown is always its own row, and every share reads against everyone.
Small counts: Every count is shown, however small.
Marks on figures: When a figure is missing, the page says why.
Rates: Pages call it the rate: how many for every 100,000 people, or every million for rare events. It always sits beside its count, never in place of it.
Who reports: Police figures count only the agencies that sent records to the FBI.

Every rule in full