BLACKOUT MAP

Internet outage history

United Kingdom

Operational 20/20 hosts up since Oct 16, 2026 10:00 UTC

Every disruption Blackout Map has recorded in United Kingdom since monitoring began on October 16, 2026, with reported government shutdowns and submarine cable incidents.

Live status of United Kingdom RSS feed

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Where our monitored hosts are Each dot is a place with monitored hosts; bigger dots have more. The country is shaded in its status now.
0incidents recorded
0total disruption
—longest incident
16outages measured since 2022
1reported shutdowns since 2019

Overview

Last 90 days

Worst status per day, last 90 days
Aug 1, 2026 Operational Degraded Partial outage Blackout Not monitored yet Today

Daily reachability

last 30 days
Oct 16Oct 230%50%100%
Hosts uplowest hour

Our probes · hosts reachable

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%

IODA · routes and active probing, % of normal

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
BGP routesActive probingIODA (Georgia Tech)

Latency from our server (Germany)

last 72 hours
Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290 ms25 ms50 ms
Latency25–75%

The same measurements as the live panel, per 30 minutes. Times in UTC.

Incidents

All incidents

our probes and IODA

No disruptions recorded in United Kingdom since monitoring started on October 16, 2026.

Attacks and context

Context only — they don't change the status above.

DDoS attacks aimed at United Kingdom · 7 days

Oct 23Oct 24Oct 25Oct 26Oct 27Oct 28Oct 290%50%100%
Network DDoSWeb attacksCloudflare Radar

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
UDP Flood 48% · Mirai (UDP) Flood 29% · SYN Flood 8% · Mirai (TCP) Flood 6%
Duration
75% longer than 1 h · 17% under 20 min
Size
73% under 500 Mbit/s · 1% over 10 Gbit/s
Web attacks from
British Telecommunications Limited 15% · Virgin Media Limited 10% · Amazon.com 8%

Routing incidents · 7 days · Cloudflare Radar

9 possible hijacks of networks in United Kingdom, 74+ route leaks involving it.

  • Oct 29 11:08 AS62365 (DE) · 1 address blocks · confidence 8/10
  • Oct 29 03:55 AS203851 (GB) · 1 address blocks · confidence 10/10
  • Oct 28 23:49 AS31898 (US) · 1 address blocks · confidence 10/10
  • Oct 28 10:59 AS203851 (GB) · 3 address blocks · confidence 10/10
  • Oct 28 17:01 AS6461 (US) · 4 address blocks · confidence 10/10

Long-term history

Before our monitoring: IODA archive

16 incidents · 5 blackouts · 7 partial outages

Outages in United Kingdom 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)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Jun 20, 2026 11:402 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 30% of normal
May 3, 2026 20:5050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 38% of normal
Aug 10, 2025 07:3030 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 83% of normal
Jul 24, 2025 08:5020 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 10% of normal
Mar 29, 2025 10:103 hours BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 31% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 22:102 hours DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 85% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 20:101 hour DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 80% of normal
Mar 25, 2025 17:3040 min DegradedIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 92% of normal
Jul 6, 2024 11:0030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal
Nov 19, 2023 12:4050 min BlackoutIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 24% of normal
Apr 4, 2023 16:5030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 78% of normal
Apr 4, 2023 15:2030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 76% of normal
Show all 16
Started (UTC)DurationWorst levelEvidence
Apr 4, 2023 05:401 hour Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 73% of normal
Apr 4, 2023 04:1040 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 75% of normal
Apr 4, 2023 00:302 hours Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 72% of normal
Jul 2, 2022 05:1030 min Partial outageIODA (Georgia Tech): active probing, lowest 51% of normal

Government shutdowns and blocks

since 2019

The Internet Society Pulse tracker records 1 government-ordered shutdown or block in United Kingdom since 2019.

  • Regional internet shutdown in Greater London (Public Wifi), since Apr 17, 2019 — 16 hours

Shutdown data provided by Internet Society. Pulse

Submarine cable incidents

Cable incidents: GeoCables (CC BY 4.0). Context only — they never change a country's status.