Wildlife Strikes on Civil Aircraft in the United States, 1990-2026 (aggregated FAA Wildlife Strike Database)

Aggregated from the FAA Wildlife Strike Database (347,575 reports in seed snapshot, January 1990–July 2026), cleaned and compiled by FlightFinder. Snapshot: seed generatedAt 2026-07-04. Trend analyses in the draft data paper use years 1990–2025 only (file wildlife_strikes_by_year_1990_2025.csv). Damage definition: report is damaging if DAMAGE_LEVEL ∈ {M, M?, S, D} (includes uncertain M?). Files: wildlife_strikes_by_year.csv — total/damaging/fatalities by year (includes partial 2026) wildlife_strikes_by_year_1990_2025.csv — paper trend window wildlife_strikes_by_airport.csv — airports (≥50 reports) with damage rate wildlife_top_species.csv — top 50 species wildlife_species_all.csv — all species facets wildlife_family_damage_rates.csv — animal family × segment (all / commercial AC_MASS 3–5) wildlife_aircraft_damage_rates.csv — free-text aircraft models wildlife_model_damage_rates_n2000.csv — models with ≥2000 strikes, sorted by damage rate wildlife_top_phases.csv — phase of flight rollups FREEZE.md / FREEZE.json — locked headline numbers wildlife_strikes_data_paper_draft.pdf — draft data paper (not peer-reviewed) Interactive explorer: himaxym.com/safety/wildlife-strikes. Story: bird-strike-damage-rates. Source: U.S. government public domain (FAA NWSD). Compilation: CC BY 4.0 — attribute FlightFinder (himaxym.com).