FAQs

Outroad is a free travel intelligence platform that helps you understand conditions in the places you live, visit, or plan to explore. It brings together Safety Scores, incident alerts, and practical destination guidance so you can make more informed travel decisions.

Outroad is for anyone who wants to travel with greater awareness and fewer surprises, whether you are planning a vacation, traveling for work, studying abroad, or exploring somewhere new with your family.

Outroad provides Safety Scores for cities and neighborhoods, alerts for developing incidents, and practical guidance on crime, scams, transportation, local disruptions, and other conditions that could affect your trip.

You can explore destinations without an account. A free account is required to save locations and receive personalized alerts.

Outroad currently provides intelligence for more than 90 countries, including thousands of cities and neighborhoods.

No. Outroad provides travel intelligence, not emergency response or assistance services. In an emergency, contact local emergency services.

Yes. After creating a free account, you can save multiple cities, neighborhoods, addresses, hotels, or landmarks and receive alerts relevant to the places that matter to you.

Outroad highlights the issues travelers are most likely to encounter in each destination and explains what they may mean in practical terms.

Guidance may cover crime, scams, cyber issues, transportation, protests, local laws, health concerns, natural hazards, surveillance, arbitrary detention, and other conditions that could affect where you go or how you prepare.

Outroad monitors incidents across six main categories:

• Crime: Theft, scams, violent crime, cyber fraud, and other criminal activity.
• Security: Terrorism, armed conflict, political instability, and significant security operations.
• Protest: Demonstrations, strikes, riots, road closures, and civil unrest.
• Health: Disease outbreaks, contaminated food or water, medical shortages, and other public-health concerns.
• Environment: Hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, flooding, extreme heat, and severe weather.
• Travel: Transportation disruptions, infrastructure failures, power outages, border restrictions, evacuations, and other events that may affect a journey.

Incident alerts are refreshed throughout the day as new information becomes available. Safety Scores are reviewed at least monthly and may be updated sooner when a major event meaningfully changes local conditions. Destination guidance is also reviewed as circumstances evolve.

Outroad is free to use and supported by advertising partners.

No account is required to explore destinations and view general travel intelligence. Free registration is required to save locations and receive personalized alerts.

Not yet. A dedicated mobile app is on our roadmap. In the meantime, Outroad is designed to work across desktop, tablet, and mobile browsers.

After creating an account, you can save locations through My Alerts and choose from email, SMS or both.

An Outroad Safety Score is a 1-10 index that helps you compare the relative safety of a city or neighborhood. A score of 10 indicates generally safer conditions, while a score of 1 indicates substantially greater risk.

Safety Scores are a guide, not a guarantee. Conditions can change quickly, and no score can account for every incident, location, or individual circumstance. For a fuller picture, review the category scores, current alerts, destination guidance, and official travel advice before making decisions.

Coverage depends on the availability and reliability of local information. Major cities and frequently visited areas generally have stronger data coverage, while some rural or less-documented locations may not yet have a score.

Safety Scores are calculated using a standardized methodology across seven dimensions of traveler safety. The model combines structural indicators - such as crime, conflict, healthcare capacity, infrastructure, and local laws - with recent incidents, unrest, health alerts, and travel disruptions.

Inputs are weighted by source reliability, recency, and severity, then adjusted for data quality and normalized to a consistent 1-10 scale. Scores are reviewed for anomalies and significant changes before publication and are never based on a single source or event.

The main Safety Score is based on seven categories:

• Personal Safety
• Theft & Scams
• Unrest & Strikes
• Women's Safety
• Healthcare & Disease
• LGBTQ+ Safety
• Travel Infrastructure

Together, these categories provide a broader view of the conditions that may affect different travelers.

Personal Safety reflects exposure to violent crime, armed conflict, and other direct threats to travelers. It considers homicide and violent-crime trends, conflict activity, states of emergency, and the broader security environment.

Outroad uses a combination of recent incident reporting, government information, public-health data, crime statistics, research, reputable news coverage, and validated historical data.

When information is limited, inconsistent, or difficult to verify, additional quality checks are applied before an assessment is published.

Yes. Outroad uses a consistent, normalized scoring framework, allowing you to compare the relative risk of cities and neighborhoods across different countries.

Because every destination is different, comparisons are most useful when considered alongside the category scores, destination guidance, and current alerts.

Outroad uses technical and administrative safeguards to protect personal information, including encryption and access controls where appropriate.

Outroad may share limited information with service providers and may use advertising, analytics, or affiliate technologies. In some jurisdictions, certain uses may legally be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of personal data. Where required, we provide applicable opt-out choices.

We only retain personal data for as long as necessary to provide services, comply with laws, or fulfill legitimate business needs. When that purpose ends, we securely delete or anonymize data.