Series · Climate & Perils
Volcanoes
Earth's 1,215 Holocene volcanoes and every eruption the record can date, from the Smithsonian's reference catalogue. Where they are, when they last woke, and what happens when one erupts beside people, aviation and insured assets.
3 episodes
- Source
- Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program
- Coverage
- 1,215 Holocene volcanoes · eruptions to 2026
- Catalogue
- 11,089 eruptions
- Peril type
- Geophysical (volcanic)
- Updated
- 2026
Activity & catalogue context · experienced risk
New episode: The World's Volcanoes
5 Jul 2026
Episodes
All 1,215 Holocene volcanoes mapped: how recently each last erupted, how often it has, and where the big ones cluster along the plate boundaries.
Every dated eruption in the catalogue, filterable by country and by volcano: when it started, how big it was on the VEI scale, and how sure the evidence is.
Europe's most active volcano: 170 catalogued eruptions, activity again in 2026, and a million people living on its slopes beside an international airport.