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Everything here is free to use under CC BY 4.0: a link back to crudesignal.io is the whole ask. Badges and the widget refresh with each data deploy (typically a few times a day); the URLs are stable, so what you paste today stays correct through the crisis.

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Live SVG, hotlinkable anywhere markdown or HTML works (READMEs, forums, wikis, docs).

Strait of Hormuz status: Disrupted

[![Strait of Hormuz status](https://crudesignal.io/badge/hormuz.svg)](https://crudesignal.io/hormuz?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=hormuz)
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The Chokepoint Index: our daily 0-100 gauge of oil-supply risk at the strait, from price stress, kinetic tempo, and the strait's state. Methodology · full history.

Chokepoint Index

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Live status widget

A self-contained iframe: verdict, crisis score, Brent, and the date the verdict was set. No scripts, no cookies, no tracking inside the frame.

<iframe src="https://crudesignal.io/embed/hormuz" title="Strait of Hormuz live status — Crude Signal"
  width="100%" height="150" style="max-width:420px;border:1px solid #30363d;border-radius:10px"
  loading="lazy" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Citing the verdict

The status is an editorial verdict on a published five-step ladder, graded against our own public forecast record. Suggested citation: 

Crude Signal (2026). Strait of Hormuz status: Disrupted (accessed September 2, 2026). https://crudesignal.io/is-the-strait-of-hormuz-open

For datasets (crisis-score history, the graded-calls record, the sourced event log) see Open Data, which carries per-dataset citations and BibTeX.

Use in Google Sheets

The open datasets import directly, no key or script required, and Sheets refreshes the data on its own (roughly hourly). Full history is public; the trailing 30 days of the score and event series are free-subscriber early access. 

=IMPORTDATA("https://crudesignal.io/data/open/crisis-score-daily.csv")
=IMPORTDATA("https://crudesignal.io/data/open/graded-calls.csv")

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