Is Santa Clara safe? United States travel risk
Is Santa Clara safe right now? Checked 17 October 2026
Santa Clara 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.
Santa Clara 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 Santa Clara: nearest emergency and transport facilities, 5-year natural hazard history within 100 km.
Driven by: security (35/100) and natural hazards (54/100).
A score of 41 is higher than 43% of the cities we score.
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Local Geographic Profile
Charted at coordinates 37.3646° N, 121.9680° W in California, Santa Clara maintains a regional distance of 3,895.1 km ENE to Washington.
California
37.3646° N, 121.9680° W
23 m
America/Los_Angeles
129,239
Emergency & Transport Infrastructure
Surrounding Localities in 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
Most flood events within 100 km of Santa Clara happened in February and December (2 of 2 in five years).
Source: GDACS, USGS; five years to October 2026.
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