Is Dover safe? United States travel risk
Is Dover safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Dover scores 41/100 on our travel risk index (Moderate). The UK has no advice against travel; Canada says: exercise normal security precautions. The US State Department does not issue advice for United States. No GDACS or USGS hazard events within 100 km in the last 14 days. No change in government advice in the last 7 days.
Dover scores 41/100 (Moderate). The score combines security, crime and scams, health and medical access, natural hazards and current alerts measured for this location and United States (how it is calculated). The sections below are specific to Dover: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: natural hazards (58/100) and security (35/100).
A score of 41 is higher than the scores of 54% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Location & Spatial Data
Coordinates 39.1610° N, 75.5202° W place Dover within Delaware at an elevation of 9 meters. Heading to Washington: 132.3 km WSW.
Delaware
39.1610° N, 75.5202° W
9 m
America/New_York
128,045
Transit Links & Medical Facilities
Proximate Regional Communities (United States)
Natural Hazard Calendar & History
5-Year Hazard Calendar (100 km Radius)
| Hazard | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floods | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Wildfires | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Droughts | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of Dover happened in September (1 of 1 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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