North American server statistics

Two columns carry most of the weight. Population is the live player count returned by the server at refresh; it is a point sample, not an average, so a server read at 04:00 local reads low whatever its reputation. Rank is different: it aggregates population over a rolling seven-day window, hour by hour, which is the figure to use when comparing servers of unequal time zones.

A blank group limit means the server has not published one, which in practice usually means Rust's default of 8 or more. Wipe cycle is inferred from the server's own announcement text and the wipe day recorded after each reset; where those disagree, the recorded reset is shown. North America spans four time zones or more, so ping to a listed server depends on which coast it sits on, and the table does not measure it.

Sorting by Rank rather than Population answers a different question. The first asks which servers are busy across a week; the second asks only who is on now. Neither says whether a server is well run, and this site does not measure that.

The region here is self-declared by the server operator. A server may sit in a North American data centre without publishing the region, and such a server will not appear on this page. For a filter by gather rate, group limit or wipe schedule, use the full server directory. Wipe timing across the region is on the wipe schedule.