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

AIRPORT REPORT LOG

Seattle-Tacoma Intl

Seattle-Tacoma Intl (KSEA) has 2,422 filed FAA wildlife-strike reports from 1990-04-30 through 2026-08-03; 629 were filed during 2021–2025, and damage was indicated in 5.2% of all reports.

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

All reports2,4221990–export
2021–2025 reports629five complete years
Reported damage5.2%conditional on reports
Covered traffic rate75.1reports / 100k covered departures
01 / READ THE RECORD

Seattle-Tacoma Intl: 629 reports in 2021–2025

Seattle-Tacoma Intl filed 629 reports in 2021–2025, which was 93 more than the 536 reports filed in 2016–2020.

Damage-indicated reports1265.2% of reports
Engine-ingestion reports743.1% of reports
Serious / destroyed19FAA S or D level
Reported inflation-adjusted cost$19.6Monly when cost was supplied
02 / YEAR LOG

Seattle-Tacoma Intl: 2016–2025 reporting record

Seattle-Tacoma Intl has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 1,165 filed reports in the annual series.

201687 reports · 3.4% damage
2017107 reports · 4.7% damage
2018123 reports · 4.1% damage
2019140 reports · 3.6% damage
202079 reports · 3.8% damage
2021121 reports · 5.8% damage
2022147 reports · 5.4% damage
2023117 reports · 4.3% damage
2024121 reports · 1.7% damage
2025123 reports · 7.3% damage
03 / SEASON

Seattle-Tacoma Intl: reports by month

Seattle-Tacoma Intl has 629 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan23
Feb25
Mar46
Apr65
May66
Jun51
Jul61
Aug57
Sep73
Oct81
Nov54
Dec27

Month counts use 2021–2025 reports.

04 / FLIGHT PHASE

Seattle-Tacoma Intl: reports by flight phase

Seattle-Tacoma Intl has 376 filed reports from 2021–2025 with a supplied flight phase in the FAA record.

Approach166 · 6.6% damage
Landing Roll87 · 8.0% damage
Climb47 · 12.8% damage
Take-off Run35 · 5.7% damage
Descent20 · 20.0% damage
Departure9 · 0.0% damage
Local5 · 0.0% damage
Arrival4 · 25.0% damage

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

05 / IDENTIFIED WILDLIFE

Seattle-Tacoma Intl: named wildlife

Seattle-Tacoma Intl has 37 published named-wildlife combinations representing 1,407 filed reports that met the combination-page threshold.

All 37 published wildlife combinations
American barn owl · 130Savannah sparrow · 118American kestrel · 117Red-tailed hawk · 101Barn swallow · 96Killdeer · 73European starling · 67Mallard · 56Glaucous-winged gull · 52American robin · 52Gulls · 51Western meadowlark · 41Short-eared owl · 36Rock pigeon · 35American crow · 34Varied thrush · 26Cliff swallow · 24Swallows · 24Bald eagle · 23Sparrows · 20Wilson's snipe · 19Wilson's warbler · 19Fox sparrow · 17Hermit thrush · 17Swainson's thrush · 16Eastern cottontail · 15Dark-eyed junco · 14Cedar waxwing · 14American pipit · 14Horned lark · 13Perching birds (y) · 13Yellow-rumped warbler · 12Western sandpiper · 12Canada goose · 10American coot · 9White-/golden-crown sparrow complex · 9Coyote · 8