Is Oakland Park safe? United States travel risk
Is Oakland Park safe right now? Checked 16 October 2026
Oakland Park 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.
Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: natural hazards (65/100) 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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Territorial & Position Context
Coordinates 26.1780° N, 80.1528° W place Oakland Park within Florida at an elevation of 1 meters. Heading to Washington: 1,445.1 km N.
Florida
26.1780° N, 80.1528° W
1 m
America/New_York
44,015
Critical Services & Regional Transit
Adjacent Localities in United States
Climate by Month
Hottest: August (30 °C avg high); Wettest: September (171 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 23° | 24° | 25° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 30° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 24° |
| Low °C | 18° | 18° | 20° | 22° | 24° | 25° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 24° | 21° | 20° |
| Rain mm | 49 | 45 | 48 | 52 | 96 | 166 | 103 | 127 | 171 | 129 | 59 | 46 |
Normals: Miami (46.5 km away).
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 Oakland Park happened in March (2 of 5 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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