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 the full record.

Longest quiet stretch

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The longest consecutive run of weeks with fewer than five alerts nationwide — a stretch of calm broken by the spring 2023 escalation.

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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The share of all calendar days in the six-year record that saw at least one alert somewhere in Israel.

Major attack days

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Days when Israel recorded 100 or more alerts in a single 24-hour window — the record's most intense days.

Minute by minute

October 7, 2023 — as it happened

October 7, 2023 is no longer the busiest day in the record — the 2026 war has passed it — but it remains the day the war began, minute by minute. 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.