FAA PUBLIC EXPORT · 355,556 REPORTSVOLUNTARY REPORTING · NOT A RISK SCORESNAPSHOT 16 SEP 2026
RUNWAYWILDLIFETHE REPORTED STRIKE RECORD
FAA SPECIES 1A1PUBLIC FAA RECORD

WILDLIFE PROFILE

Virginia opossum

The FAA database contains 549 filed wildlife-strike reports naming Virginia opossum across 108 airports; damage was indicated in 0.2% and engine ingestion in 0.0%. These are report-level shares, not flight probabilities.

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

Filed reports5491990–export
Airports represented108distinct airport IDs
Damage indicated0.2%of filed reports
Engine ingestion0.0%of filed reports
Damage-indicated reports1FAA report field
Serious / destroyed0FAA S or D level
Effect on flight2effect supplied
Reported cost$0inflation-adjusted supplied values
02 / YEAR LOG

Virginia opossum: 2016–2025 reporting record

Virginia opossum has 10 complete-year cohorts from 2016 through 2025, totaling 323 filed reports in the annual series.

201631 · 0.0% damage
201731 · 0.0% damage
201836 · 0.0% damage
201952 · 0.0% damage
202020 · 0.0% damage
202122 · 0.0% damage
202234 · 0.0% damage
202338 · 0.0% damage
202436 · 0.0% damage
202523 · 0.0% damage
03 / SEASON

Virginia opossum: 2021–2025 by month

Virginia opossum appears in 153 filed reports from 2021–2025 with an incident month, distributed across the 12 calendar months.

Jan10
Feb12
Mar14
Apr10
May25
Jun15
Jul12
Aug8
Sep3
Oct22
Nov13
Dec9