Welcome to the Advancing violence epidemiology in real-time (AVERT) dashboard

The dashboard displays data related to the conditions the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) AVERT program tracks. The AVERT program’s goal is to rapidly provide data on emergency department visits for: • Firearm injuries • Mental health conditions • Other violence-related injuries This data will be: • Geographically centered • Population-specific • Reliable








Overall volume for Firearm emergency department visits for the period:
Number of firearm emergency department (ED) visits, Utah, May 2024 to October 2025. This data includes ED visits in Utah where the main diagnosis involves firearm injury.
Injuries are grouped by intent:
⦁ Assault
⦁ Intentional self-harm
⦁ Unintentional
⦁ Unknown intent

A firearm-related injury means a gunshot wound or a penetrating injury from a weapon that uses gunpowder to fire a projectile. These cases may also include injuries that led to death.

Data on deaths caused by firearms come from the Utah Death Certificate database. You can find this information in Utah’s Public Health Indicator Based Information System.
Monthly ED visits for firearm injuries
How to read this chart: The green solid line is the baseline average of ED visits for firearm Injury over the most recent 18-month period for which data is available. The blue dashed lines show the outliers . Red points mark outliers above the upper threshold, while green points mark outliers below the lower threshold.
Incidence by age group and sex for firearm injuries
Persons aged 15–44 account for most firearm injuries, with males aged 15–44 about 4 times the number of female injuries. Males aged 15–24 years old have about ten times the number of injuries as females of the same age group.

To preserve privacy for Utah citizens, as required by law, small numbers (<11) on these plots are drawn at 11, though the real number may be between 1–11. Counts of zeroes are plotted as zero.
ED visits map for firearm injuries
Local health department