Denver International Airport safety profile
91 recorded occurrences at or near Denver International Airport (1980–2026): 25 at the airport, 66 nearby; 2 fatal, 29 fatalities.
What happens most
Runway incursions
The FAA Runway Safety database records 172 runway incursions at this airport, including 3 serious (Category A/B) events. Full runway incursion history.
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2025-12-16 — 0.2 km
- 2025-08-31 — Air Canada — 0.2 km
- 2022-05-17 — 0.2 km
- 2021-06-03 — Alpine Air Express — 0.2 km
- 2021-04-02 — 0.2 km
- 2020-10-02 — 0.2 km
- 2020-06-28 — Rocky Mountain Flight School — 0.2 km
- 2020-03-18 — C Flying K Aviation Llc — 0.2 km
- 2019-12-23 — United Airlines — 0.2 km
- 2019-08-29 — Rocky Mountain Flight School — 0.2 km
- 2019-07-19 — Flights - Inc — 0.2 km
- 2019-07-13 — Western Air Flight Academy — 0.2 km
Runways
- 16R/34L: 16,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 07/25: 12,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 08/26: 12,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 16L/34R: 12,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 17L/35R: 12,000 ft, CON, lighted
- 17R/35L: 12,000 ft, CON, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 45.894 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 53.393 days/year
- Snow: 51.093 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.094% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0.001% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.