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

AIRPORT REPORT LOG

Metro Oakland Intl

Metro Oakland Intl (KOAK) has 2,004 filed FAA wildlife-strike reports from 1990-05-10 through 2026-07-20; 457 were filed during 2021–2025, and damage was indicated in 7.1% of all reports.

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

All reports2,0041990–export
2021–2025 reports457five complete years
Reported damage7.1%conditional on reports
Covered traffic rate440.7reports / 100k covered departures
01 / READ THE RECORD

Metro Oakland Intl: 457 reports in 2021–2025

Metro Oakland Intl filed 457 reports in 2021–2025, which was 55 more than the 402 reports filed in 2016–2020.

Damage-indicated reports1437.1% of reports
Engine-ingestion reports1256.2% of reports
Serious / destroyed24FAA S or D level
Reported inflation-adjusted cost$8.0Monly when cost was supplied
02 / YEAR LOG

Metro Oakland Intl: 2016–2025 reporting record

Metro Oakland Intl has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 859 filed reports in the annual series.

201659 reports · 5.1% damage
201774 reports · 5.4% damage
2018114 reports · 5.3% damage
201999 reports · 10.1% damage
202056 reports · 1.8% damage
202156 reports · 5.4% damage
202285 reports · 1.2% damage
202391 reports · 2.2% damage
2024120 reports · 1.7% damage
2025105 reports · 4.8% damage
03 / SEASON

Metro Oakland Intl: reports by month

Metro Oakland Intl has 457 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan20
Feb20
Mar29
Apr55
May48
Jun44
Jul26
Aug27
Sep52
Oct74
Nov34
Dec28

Month counts use 2021–2025 reports.

04 / FLIGHT PHASE

Metro Oakland Intl: reports by flight phase

Metro Oakland Intl has 376 filed reports from 2021–2025 with a supplied flight phase in the FAA record.

Approach179 · 2.2% damage
Landing Roll85 · 1.2% damage
Take-off Run45 · 8.9% damage
Climb44 · 9.1% damage
Descent13 · 0.0% damage
Departure5 · 0.0% damage
Arrival2 · 0.0% damage
Taxi2 · 0.0% damage

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

05 / IDENTIFIED WILDLIFE

Metro Oakland Intl: named wildlife

Metro Oakland Intl has 33 published named-wildlife combinations representing 802 filed reports that met the combination-page threshold.

All 33 published wildlife combinations
Gulls · 113Mallard · 56American barn owl · 50Red-tailed hawk · 42Canada goose · 42Black-tailed jackrabbit · 41Western sandpiper · 38Western meadowlark · 38Cliff swallow · 28Barn swallow · 27Western gull · 23Sparrows · 21Rock pigeon · 20California gull · 19Brazilian free-tailed bat · 19Horned lark · 18Striped skunk · 18Mourning dove · 18Killdeer · 16Savannah sparrow · 15Least sandpiper · 14Ducks · 14Turkey vulture · 13American kestrel · 13Hawks · 12Dunlin · 12Perching birds (y) · 10European starling · 10Virginia opossum · 9Sandpipers, curlews, phalaropes, allies · 9Northern shoveler · 8Swainson's thrush · 8Hermit thrush · 8