See the reporting landscape.Read the signal carefully.
Explore official U.S. suspicious reporting patterns by state and county, then add business-footprint, trade, predicate-related and sanctions context.
Suspicious reporting activity
Address locatorFind a U.S. addressFull addresses require consent before official geocoding.
Context for California
California state profile. These layers support investigation; they do not create a composite risk score.
Useful context before conclusions
The atlas makes public reporting patterns easier to explore while keeping source limits visible.
Four interpretation rules
Reporting intensity is not crime intensity.
SARs record suspicion reported by regulated entities. More volume can reflect a larger customer base, controls, sector concentration or filing practice.
Location is reported-activity context.
FinCEN generally derives location from reported activity ZIP information, with fallback rules. It is not necessarily a customer residence, institution headquarters or offence location.
Totals are not always unique filings.
A U.S. SAR can include multiple locations, institution types and activity selections. “All” views are displayed counts, not a deduplicated caseload.
Normalization is context, not a score.
County rates use 2025 population estimates or compatible 2023 employer-establishment denominators. FinCEN MSB registrations are not divided by Census establishment totals.
Trace every layer to its origin
Public, reproducible U.S. sources. No proprietary risk labels and no individual SAR records.
Reporting, operations & geography8 official sources
State/territory counts for eight financial institution groups, 2014–2024.
Financial Crimes Enforcement NetworkBuild-time county × industry snapshot for complete calendar years 2020–2025; partial 2026 is excluded.
Financial Crimes Enforcement NetworkCounty × industry × suspicious-activity selections for complete calendar years 2020–2025.
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network2025 SOD office records and reported deposits by office-location county; not unique institutions, SAR filers or a denominator.
Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationCurrent registrant-address records mapped conservatively to counties; registrations are not branches, agents, licences or risk findings.
Financial Crimes Enforcement NetworkCounty shapes aligned with FinCEN’s published county dictionary, including legacy names.
United States Census BureauPopulation comparison base for filing locations per 100,000 residents.
United States Census BureauNAICS employer-establishment proxies for sector-footprint comparison.
United States Census BureauTrade, predicate & U.S. screening context4 official sources
2025 merchandise exports and imports by state, four-digit product group and trading partner.
United States Census Bureau2024 MSA and three-digit-ZIP merchandise exports; county detail is limited and local import data is not collected.
International Trade AdministrationState-level fraud, identity theft, reported loss and leading consumer-report categories.
Federal Trade CommissionU.S. OFAC sanctions and BIS/State restricted-party address context. Source lists have different legal effects.
U.S. International Trade Administration