FAA PUBLIC EXPORT · 355,556 REPORTSVOLUNTARY REPORTING · NOT A RISK SCORESNAPSHOT 16 SEP 2026
RUNWAYWILDLIFETHE REPORTED STRIKE RECORD
KLAX / LAXCALIFORNIA

AIRPORT REPORT LOG

Los Angeles Intl

Los Angeles Intl (KLAX) has 3,177 filed FAA wildlife-strike reports from 1990-04-27 through 2026-07-17; 732 were filed during 2021–2025, and damage was indicated in 5.6% of all reports.

Source: FAA National Wildlife Strike Database · Voluntary-report cohort · Snapshot September 16, 2026

All reports3,1771990–export
2021–2025 reports732five complete years
Reported damage5.6%conditional on reports
Covered traffic rate85.9reports / 100k covered departures
01 / READ THE RECORD

Los Angeles Intl: 732 reports in 2021–2025

Los Angeles Intl filed 732 reports in 2021–2025, which was 1 fewer than the 733 reports filed in 2016–2020.

Damage-indicated reports1775.6% of reports
Engine-ingestion reports1885.9% of reports
Serious / destroyed47FAA S or D level
Reported inflation-adjusted cost$17.1Monly when cost was supplied
02 / YEAR LOG

Los Angeles Intl: 2016–2025 reporting record

Los Angeles Intl has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 1,465 filed reports in the annual series.

2016130 reports · 3.1% damage
2017150 reports · 1.3% damage
2018152 reports · 2.6% damage
2019177 reports · 4.5% damage
2020124 reports · 4.8% damage
2021112 reports · 7.1% damage
2022121 reports · 0.0% damage
2023140 reports · 2.1% damage
2024187 reports · 3.2% damage
2025172 reports · 4.1% damage
03 / SEASON

Los Angeles Intl: reports by month

Los Angeles Intl has 732 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan41
Feb47
Mar42
Apr53
May68
Jun66
Jul48
Aug75
Sep92
Oct77
Nov67
Dec56

Month counts use 2021–2025 reports.

04 / FLIGHT PHASE

Los Angeles Intl: reports by flight phase

Los Angeles Intl has 525 filed reports from 2021–2025 with a supplied flight phase in the FAA record.

Approach247 · 4.9% damage
Landing Roll144 · 0.7% damage
Take-off Run53 · 7.5% damage
Climb43 · 9.3% damage
Descent16 · 18.8% damage
Departure15 · 0.0% damage
Arrival4 · 0.0% damage
Taxi2 · 0.0% damage

Phase counts use 2021–2025 reports with a supplied phase.

05 / IDENTIFIED WILDLIFE

Los Angeles Intl: named wildlife

Los Angeles Intl has 43 published named-wildlife combinations representing 1,789 filed reports that met the combination-page threshold.

All 43 published wildlife combinations
American kestrel · 292Western meadowlark · 181American barn owl · 150Rock pigeon · 133Red-tailed hawk · 126Western gull · 104Gulls · 87Mourning dove · 78American coot · 40American pipit · 40Barn swallow · 35Perching birds (y) · 35White-throated swift · 33American crow · 31California gull · 30White-headed gull complex · 25Great blue heron · 22Horned lark · 22Burrowing owl · 22Western tanager · 19Sparrows · 18Savannah sparrow · 17Cliff swallow · 17Western flycatcher · 15Swainson's thrush · 15Coyote · 14Red fox · 14Killdeer · 14Peregrine falcon · 13Brown pelican · 13White-/golden-crown sparrow complex · 12Western grebe · 12Black-bellied plover · 12Hawks · 11Black-crowned night heron · 11Wilson's warbler · 11European starling · 11Yellow-rumped warbler · 10Brazilian free-tailed bat · 10Black-headed grosbeak · 10Eared grebe · 8Western sandpiper · 8American robin · 8