Internet outage history
Iceland
Operational 20/20 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC
Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in Iceland since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.
Overview
Last 90 days
Worst status per day, last 90 daysDaily reachability
last 30 daysOur probes · hosts reachable
last 72 hoursIODA · routes and active probing, % of normal
last 72 hoursLatency from our server (Germany)
last 72 hoursThe same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.
Incidents
All incidents
our probes and IODANo disruptions recorded in Iceland since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.
Attacks and context
Context only — they don't change the status above.
DDoS attacks aimed at Iceland · 7 days
Per hour; each line is relative to its own busiest hour of the week (100%). Context only — attacks never change a country's status.
- Types
- SYN Flood 78% · UDP Flood 16% · Mirai (UDP) Flood 2% · Mirai (TCP) Flood 2%
- Duration
- 80% longer than 1 h · 12% under 20 min
- Size
- 99% under 500 Mbit/s · 0% over 10 Gbit/s
- Web attacks from
- Nova hf 25% · Mila hf 21% · Vodafone Iceland 20%
Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar
0 possible hijacks of networks in Iceland, 1+ route leaks involving it.
Long-term history
Before our monitoring: IODA archive
11 incidents · 6 blackouts · 3 partial outagesOutages in Iceland detected by IODA (Georgia Tech) between January 2022 and the start of our own monitoring: drops in the country's internet routes (BGP) or in its reachability from IODA's active probing, compared with the day before. Each is checked against IODA's signal; small dips are left out.
| Started (UTC) | Duration | Worst level | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2026 12:20 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 2% of normal |
| May 3, 2026 20:50 | 50 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% of normal |
| Aug 10, 2025 07:30 | 30 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal |
| Jul 24, 2025 08:50 | 20 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 9% of normal |
| Apr 9, 2025 20:55 | 20 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): routes, lowest 68% of normal |
| Mar 29, 2025 10:10 | 3 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 29% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 20:10 | 5 hours | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 79% of normal |
| Mar 25, 2025 17:30 | 40 min | Degraded | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 91% of normal |
| Jul 6, 2024 11:00 | 30 min | Partial outage | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal |
| Nov 19, 2023 12:40 | 2 hours | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 16% of normal |
| Jul 2, 2022 05:10 | 30 min | Blackout | IODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 48% of normal |
Government shutdowns and blocks
since 2019The Internet Society Pulse tracker has no recorded government shutdowns or blocks in Iceland since 2019.
Provided by Internet Society.
Submarine cable incidents
No submarine cable incidents recorded for Iceland.
Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.