Is Flint safe? United States travel risk
Is Flint safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Flint scores 36/100 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.
Flint scores 36/100 (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 Flint: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (35/100) and crime and scams (47/100).
A score of 36 is higher than the scores of 44% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Location & Spatial Data
Charted at coordinates 43.0236° N, 83.6921° W in Michigan, Flint maintains a regional distance of 723.4 km SE to Washington.
Michigan
43.0236° N, 83.6921° W
229 m
America/Detroit
291,688
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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Most flood events within 100 km of Flint happened in March (1 of 1 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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