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

DATA DICTIONARY

Every displayed signal, named.

FAA fields used

Report count
Rows in the public export after limiting airport profiles to recognized U.S. state and territory records with a supplied airport ID.
Damage indicated
INDICATED_DAMAGE equals 1.
Serious / destroyed
DAMAGE_LEVEL is S or D.
Engine ingestion
Any engine-ingestion or other-ingestion field is marked true.
Reported cost
COST_REPAIRS_INFL_ADJ plus COST_OTHER_INFL_ADJ when supplied. Missing cost is zero in sums and is not imputed.
Species
FAA SPECIES and SPECIES_ID. Unknown categories remain in airport totals but are excluded from thin combination pages.
Phase and season
PHASE_OF_FLIGHT and INCIDENT_MONTH; local charts use 2021–2025.
Covered departures
BTS reporting-carrier scheduled domestic departure rows, July 2025–June 2026.

Downloads and attribution

Source records are available from the official FAA Wildlife Strike Database. Runway Wildlife publishes aggregate pages rather than republicating personal reporter fields or narrative remarks.

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