Brazilian free-tailed bat

The FAA database contains 1,333 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Brazilian free-tailed bat across 77 airports; damage was indicated in 0.4% and engine ingestion in 0.5%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

Source: FAA National Wildlife Strike Database · Named-subject cohort · Snapshot September 16, 2026

Filed reports1,3331990–export

Airports represented77distinct airport IDs

Damage indicated0.4%of filed reports

Engine ingestion0.5%of filed reports

Damage-indicated reports5FAA report field

Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level

Effect on flight3effect supplied

Reported cost$2Kinflation-adjusted supplied values

02 / YEAR LOG

Brazilian free-tailed bat: 2016–2025 reporting record

Brazilian free-tailed bat has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 1,050 filed reports in the annual series.

201637 · 0.0% damage

201715 · 0.0% damage

2018117 · 0.9% damage

2019115 · 0.0% damage

202058 · 3.4% damage

202198 · 0.0% damage

202285 · 1.2% damage

2023142 · 0.0% damage

2024165 · 0.6% damage

2025218 · 0.0% damage

03 / SEASON

Brazilian free-tailed bat: 2021–2025 by month

Brazilian free-tailed bat appears in 708 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan9

Feb21

Mar40

Apr64

May57

Jun66

Jul131

Aug129

Sep79

Oct68

Nov32

Dec12

04 / AIRPORT RECORDS

Brazilian free-tailed bat: published airport records

Brazilian free-tailed bat has 24 published airport combinations representing 1,225 filed reports that met the publication threshold.