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

AIRPORT REPORT LOG

Lafayette Regional

Lafayette Regional (KLFT) has 405 filed FAA wildlife-strike reports from 1990-06-07 through 2026-07-20; 120 were filed during 2021–2025, and damage was indicated in 4.2% of all reports.

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

All reports4051990–export
2021–2025 reports120five complete years
Reported damage4.2%conditional on reports
Covered traffic rate735.9reports / 100k covered departures
01 / READ THE RECORD

Lafayette Regional: 120 reports in 2021–2025

Lafayette Regional filed 120 reports in 2021–2025, which was 3 more than the 117 reports filed in 2016–2020.

Damage-indicated reports174.2% of reports
Engine-ingestion reports82.0% of reports
Serious / destroyed5FAA S or D level
Reported inflation-adjusted cost$1.2Monly when cost was supplied
02 / YEAR LOG

Lafayette Regional: 2016–2025 reporting record

Lafayette Regional has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 237 filed reports in the annual series.

201630 reports · 6.7% damage
201714 reports · 0.0% damage
201829 reports · 0.0% damage
201927 reports · 0.0% damage
202017 reports · 0.0% damage
202125 reports · 4.0% damage
202218 reports · 0.0% damage
202324 reports · 4.2% damage
202429 reports · 3.4% damage
202524 reports · 0.0% damage
03 / SEASON

Lafayette Regional: reports by month

Lafayette Regional has 120 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan7
Feb3
Mar7
Apr8
May14
Jun9
Jul23
Aug11
Sep7
Oct12
Nov11
Dec8

Month counts use 2021–2025 reports.

04 / FLIGHT PHASE

Lafayette Regional: reports by flight phase

Lafayette Regional has 73 filed reports from 2021–2025 with a supplied flight phase in the FAA record.

Approach30 · 3.3% damage
Landing Roll15 · 6.7% damage
Take-off Run9 · 11.1% damage
Climb9 · 0.0% damage
Arrival4 · 0.0% damage
Departure3 · 0.0% damage
Taxi2 · 0.0% damage
Descent1 · 0.0% damage

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