ATLAS · VOLCANOES
Every Active Volcano on Earth
The world’s volcanoes on one map: 1,215 volcanoes active in the last ~12,000 years, across 73 countries, each coloured by how recently it last erupted — from the 387 that have erupted since 1926 (the red dots, where Earth is volcanically alive right now) back to undated Holocene cones. So the restless volcanoes stand out from the long-dormant ones at a glance. Data is from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program, a snapshot taken 2026-06-23.
What the colours mean
Every volcano is tinted by how recently it last erupted— the hotter the colour, the more recent. Severe-red marks the 387 that have erupted since 1926, the closest thing to a live picture of where the planet is restless. Watch-amber is the historical era (1500–1925), charge-blue is prehistoric Holocene (last erupted before about 1500, sometimes thousands of years ago), and radar-green is Holocene-active volcanoes whose last eruption is undated— active, but with no pinned-down date, never guessed. What “active” really means and how to read the map is worth two minutes:
Active, dormant, extinct — how to read the map →Volcanoes by country
Where the volcanoes cluster — along the Ring of Fire and the great rift zones. Open a country for its most recently active volcanoes, the spread of eruption ages, and its highest summit.
Every country with a volcano
United States · Japan · Indonesia · Russia · Chile · Ethiopia · Papua New Guinea · Ecuador · Iceland · Mexico · Canada · New Zealand · Philippines · Kenya · Tonga · France · Antarctica · Guatemala · El Salvador · Argentina · Colombia · United Kingdom · Italy · Nicaragua · Peru · Portugal · Vanuatu · China · Costa Rica · Yemen · Spain · Saudi Arabia · Solomon Islands · Turkiye · Armenia · Dominica · Eritrea · Greece · Tanzania · Australia · Chad · DR Congo · Sudan · Algeria · Cameroon · Honduras · Cabo Verde · Fiji · Georgia · Grenada · Mongolia · Netherlands · Norway · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Samoa · South Africa · South Korea · Taiwan · Uganda · Union of the Comoros · Vietnam · Bolivia · Burma (Myanmar) · Djibouti · Equatorial Guinea · Germany · India · Iran · Niger · Panama · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Syria
About this data
Volcanoes, locations, elevations, types and last-eruption years come from the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program’s “Volcanoes of the World” catalogue — the canonical, volcanologist-maintained reference, in the public domain as US-government work. We map every volcano on its Holocenelist (active in the last ~12,000 years). A last-eruption year is recorded for about 70% of them; the rest are shown honestly as “undated” rather than guessed. Elevations are authoritative, and include negative values for submarine volcanoes. This is a map of where the world’s active volcanoes are and how recently each stirred — not an eruption forecast or an alert feed. We refresh the snapshot periodically rather than calling the catalogue on every visit.