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r/Volcanoes

A subreddit for the videos, articles, pictures, and discussion of and about volcanoes! Founded 2011 · 84.5K members

84.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.4K upvotes, which works out to 159 per 1,000 members.

159peak upvotes per 1,000 members
84.6Kmembers
13.4Kbest post
501most comments
401posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 32% 13% 11%
Image 37% Video 32% Link 13% Gallery 11% Question 4% Text 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Image 73 Video 44 Discussion 15 News 12 Article 9 Meme 2 Meta 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Icelandic Coastguard flyover of the new eruption on the Reykjaness peninsula. The fissure is around 3 and a half kilometers in length.

↑ 13.4K 💬 501 video 2023

Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii—my God, it's terrifying.

↑ 12.1K 💬 155 video 2026

Aerial video from the Iceland volcano eruption

↑ 6.8K 💬 102 video 2023

Mount St. Helens erupted 45 years ago today, killing 57 and creating this 2-km-wide crater.

↑ 4.4K 💬 80 video 2025

Never before seen picture of Mount Saint Helens erupting

↑ 4.3K 💬 45 image 2025

Fagradalsfjall volcano just erupted!! View from my home

↑ 4.2K 💬 95 image 2023

Chile's Villarrica volcano erupts during the storm

↑ 4K 💬 31 video 2025

Phreatomagmatic eruption of Tall volcano in the Philippines

↑ 3.9K 💬 91 video 2025

The volcano has just erupted! View from my home, Iceland

↑ 3.9K 💬 108 gallery 2024

Fuego Volcano erupts with volcanic lightning over Antigua, Guatemala

↑ 3.9K 💬 59 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Volcanoes, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Volcanoes?
r/Volcanoes describes itself this way: A subreddit for the videos, articles, pictures, and discussion of and about volcanoes. It was founded in 2011 and has 84.5K members.
How many members does r/Volcanoes have?
r/Volcanoes has about 84.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 401 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.4K upvotes, which is 159 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Volcanoes?
"Icelandic Coastguard flyover of the new eruption on the Reykjaness peninsula. The fissure is around 3 and a half kilometers in length." reached 13.4K upvotes and 501 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Volcanoes.
What subreddits are similar to r/Volcanoes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/Volcanoes?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 32% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Volcanoes?
Across 401 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (2.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Volcanoes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Volcanoes has 2.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 26 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Volcanoes, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.