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

AIRPORT REPORT LOG

San Francisco Intl Arpt

San Francisco Intl Arpt (KSFO) has 2,738 filed FAA wildlife-strike reports from 1990-03-09 through 2026-08-29; 634 were filed during 2021–2025, and damage was indicated in 6.9% of all reports.

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

All reports2,7381990–export
2021–2025 reports634five complete years
Reported damage6.9%conditional on reports
Covered traffic rate122.0reports / 100k covered departures
01 / READ THE RECORD

San Francisco Intl Arpt: 634 reports in 2021–2025

San Francisco Intl Arpt filed 634 reports in 2021–2025, which was 177 more than the 457 reports filed in 2016–2020.

Damage-indicated reports1886.9% of reports
Engine-ingestion reports2027.4% of reports
Serious / destroyed61FAA S or D level
Reported inflation-adjusted cost$20.1Monly when cost was supplied
02 / YEAR LOG

San Francisco Intl Arpt: 2016–2025 reporting record

San Francisco Intl Arpt has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 1,091 filed reports in the annual series.

201665 reports · 6.2% damage
2017132 reports · 3.8% damage
2018140 reports · 0.7% damage
201972 reports · 1.4% damage
202048 reports · 10.4% damage
202185 reports · 2.4% damage
2022116 reports · 1.7% damage
2023119 reports · 1.7% damage
2024162 reports · 3.7% damage
2025152 reports · 3.9% damage
03 / SEASON

San Francisco Intl Arpt: reports by month

San Francisco Intl Arpt has 634 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan19
Feb27
Mar24
Apr52
May37
Jun17
Jul59
Aug70
Sep91
Oct83
Nov91
Dec64

Month counts use 2021–2025 reports.

04 / FLIGHT PHASE

San Francisco Intl Arpt: reports by flight phase

San Francisco Intl Arpt has 445 filed reports from 2021–2025 with a supplied flight phase in the FAA record.

Approach165 · 4.8% damage
Landing Roll105 · 1.9% damage
Take-off Run77 · 6.5% damage
Climb48 · 6.2% damage
Departure35 · 0.0% damage
Arrival8 · 0.0% damage
Descent4 · 0.0% damage
Local2 · 0.0% damage

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

05 / IDENTIFIED WILDLIFE

San Francisco Intl Arpt: named wildlife

San Francisco Intl Arpt has 37 published named-wildlife combinations representing 1,324 filed reports that met the combination-page threshold.

All 37 published wildlife combinations
American barn owl · 177Gulls · 163Western sandpiper · 143Red-tailed hawk · 91White-tailed kite · 87Great blue heron · 56Dunlin · 41American kestrel · 39Black-bellied plover · 38Western meadowlark · 36American pipit · 30Least sandpiper · 30Brown pelican · 27Black-tailed jackrabbit · 26Rock pigeon · 26Killdeer · 25Sparrows · 24European starling · 24Horned lark · 20Savannah sparrow · 19California gull · 19Hawks · 17Western gull · 16White-headed gull complex · 16Canada goose · 13Turkey vulture · 12Peregrine falcon · 12Black-crowned night heron · 11Ducks · 11Double-crested cormorant · 10Brazilian free-tailed bat · 10Mallard · 10Barn swallow · 10Perching birds (y) · 10Short-eared owl · 9Band-tailed pigeon · 8Ring-billed gull · 8