06 — Records & Extremes

The Numbers at Their Worst

Every long dataset has its outliers. These are the records the Under Fire data has set since 2020 — the single busiest day, the single busiest hour of the clock, the single most-hit area on its worst day, and the longest stretch of near-silence.

Busiest day

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The single heaviest 24-hour window in the dataset. Enough alerts in one day to fire roughly one every eight seconds.

Busiest hour of the clock

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Across every day of every year, this one hour of the clock sees more alerts than any other. Aggregated over 2,281 days.

Longest quiet stretch

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The longest consecutive run of weeks with fewer than five alerts nationwide. A moment of relative calm before Oct 7 broke it.

Busiest day of the week

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Saturdays account for more alerts than any other day of the week — nearly double the quietest day across the full six-year record.

Days under attack

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Of every day across the six-year record, more than four in five had at least one alert somewhere in Israel.

Major attack days

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Days where Israel recorded 100 or more alerts in a single 24-hour window — roughly one in every six days in the dataset.

Minute by minute

October 7, 2023 — as it happened

The peak day for all-time alert counts by attack is still Oct 7, 2023. Each bar is one minute between 06:29 and 23:13. The early-morning spike runs for roughly three hours before the cadence settles into a steady, exhausted drumbeat.