Five-year trends 2021-2025

From 2021 through 2025, the FBI identified 217 active shooter incidents nationwide.

The total number of casualties was 1,072.

STATE: Active shooter incidents from 2021 through 2025 occurred across 46 states and the District of Columbia with the most occurring in Texas (25).

MONTH: June had the highest number of incidents (29).

MULTIPLE SHOOTERS: Two incidents had multiple shooters.

GENDER: Of the 219 shooters, 212 were male, six were female, and one is unknown.

DAY: Active shooter incidents occurred every day of the week with the most occurring on Monday (40).

CATEGORIES: Attacks occurred all in seven location categories:

AGE: Shooters were between 12 and 77 years old.

FIREARMS: Across all attacks, 276 firearms were used: 168 handguns (61%), 80 rifles (29%) and 18 shotguns (7%); 10 firearms were unknown (4%).

41% - Open Space (89) • 36% - Commerce (78) • 8% - Education (17) • 6% - Government (14) • 4% - Residence (8) • 3% - House of worship (7) • 2% - Health Care (4)

ARMOR: Twelve shooters wore body armor.

RESOLUTION: Of the 219 shooters, 120 were apprehended by law enforcement (55%), 43 died by suicide (20%), and 51 were killed by law enforcement, security personnel, or civilians (23%). At the time of publication, four shooters remain at large (2%). One died in a vehicle crash.

KILLED AND WOUNDED: Among the 1,072 casualties, 382 were killed and 690 were wounded.

The following data provides a statistical overview of the past five years. The data includes metrics from 2021 through 2025.

217 INCIDENTS | 1,072 CASUALTIES | 219 SHOOTERS | 50 MASS KILLINGS (including D.C.)

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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).