Is Santa Ana safe? United States travel risk
Is Santa Ana safe right now? Checked 17 October 2026
Santa Ana scores 45/100 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.
Santa Ana scores 45/100 (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 Santa Ana: nearest emergency and transport facilities, local climate normals, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: natural hazards (76/100) and security (35/100).
A score of 45 is higher than 48% of the cities we score.
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Geographic & Regional Coordinates
Positioned at 33.7367° N, 117.8819° W in California, Santa Ana features an altitude of 35 m. The settlement is located 3,675.0 km ENE from Washington.
California
33.7367° N, 117.8819° W
35 m
America/Los_Angeles
311,639
Emergency & Aviation Access
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Climate by Month
Hottest: August (33 °C avg high); Wettest: February (70 mm).
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High °C | 19° | 20° | 21° | 24° | 27° | 30° | 33° | 33° | 32° | 29° | 23° | 19° |
| Low °C | 7° | 7° | 8° | 10° | 13° | 15° | 19° | 19° | 18° | 14° | 10° | 7° |
| Rain mm | 65 | 70 | 59 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 30 | 50 |
Normals: Los Angeles (48.4 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 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Wildfires | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | — |
Most wildfire events within 100 km of Santa Ana happened in January and September (6 of 7 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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