Is Gainesville safe? United States travel risk
Is Gainesville safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Gainesville scores 35/100 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.
Gainesville scores 35/100 (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 Gainesville: nearest emergency and transport facilities.
Driven by: security (35/100) and crime and scams (47/100).
A score of 35 is higher than the scores of 42% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Local Geographic Profile
Coordinates 29.6804° N, 82.3459° W place Gainesville within Florida at an elevation of 54 meters. Heading to Washington: 1,136.0 km NNE.
Florida
29.6804° N, 82.3459° W
54 m
America/New_York
219,946
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No GDACS or USGS events recorded within 100 km in the past five years.
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