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This is a list of human deaths caused by bear attacks in North America by decade in reverse chronological order. These fatalities have been documented through news media, reports, cause-of-death statistics, scientific papers, or other sources.
The following list showcases the twenty-four fatal black bear attacks that have occurred between 2003 and 2023. Some interesting statistics: the youngest person killed was a child six years of age; the oldest, an 85 year old female who had been illegally feeding bears on her property.
While fatal bear attacks are rare—there have only been around 180 deaths from bear attacks in North America since the late 1700s—they never fail to shock with their brutality. The following...
Authorities in Montana say a 911 caller discovered his friend dead in a tent in what appeared to have been a fatal bear attack — but officials soon discovered the camper was actually the victim ...
The two backpackers in Canada's Banff National Park seem to have emptied a can of bear spray, trying to get the animal to leave their camp. When rescuers arrived, the bear charged at them.
Fatal bear attacks in North America have occurred in wilderness habitats involving hikers, hunters, and campers. But which US states have the worst figures regarding bear fatalities?
US authorities are searching for a grizzly bear that killed a woman in Montana after dragging her from her tent in the middle of the night. Leah Lokan, a 65-year-old nurse from California,...
In the past twenty-one years 24 people have been died in fatal bear attacks in the continuous United States. The lower forty-eight are home to two types of bears, the common black bear and the endangered grizzly or brown bear.
A woman found dead last year in a rural mountain home was the victim of the first documented fatal black bear attack on a human in California, authorities said. The grim first, spotlighting California’s growing problem of bear-human encounters, occurred in Downieville, a tiny town in the Sierra Nevada, two hours northeast of the state capital ...
Authorities have been unable to find the bear that killed a woman near Yellowstone National Park late last month. The attack has renewed calls to take grizzlies off the endangered species list.