Is Margate safe? United States travel risk
Is Margate safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Margate scores 42/100 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.
Margate scores 42/100 (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 Margate: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: natural hazards (65/100) and security (35/100).
A score of 42 is higher than the scores of 54% of the 241 countries we cover.
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Local Geographic Profile
Charted at coordinates 26.2466° N, 80.2119° W in Florida, Margate maintains a regional distance of 1,438.7 km N to Washington.
Florida
26.2466° N, 80.2119° W
3 m
America/New_York
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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 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Most wildfire events within 100 km of Margate happened in March (2 of 5 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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