Hollywood Burbank Airport noise

Updated 24 October 2026

Modeled estimates for general information only — not measurements, not a guarantee, and not for legal, medical or real-estate decisions.

Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) sits inside the city of Burbank, about 1.5 km from the I-5. Quiet LA draws the airport’s official noise contours, adds an estimate derived from them to the 24 h value, and replays recorded flights of one sample day. It does not count individual flights or model helicopters.

See Hollywood Burbank Airport on the map

What the map shows near Hollywood Burbank Airport

In the 24 h view the map adds an aircraft estimate to road and train noise. For Burbank it starts from the 65 and 70 CNEL contours in the airport’s quarterly noise monitoring report for the fourth quarter of 2024 (the report is titled with the airport’s former name, Bob Hope Airport). Quiet LA stretches those lines outward to 55 CNEL, using the spacing of the airport’s own lines, and interpolates between them. Nothing is added outside 55 CNEL.

Day, Evening and Night never include aircraft. Burbank also has train noise in the model: the Metrolink Ventura and Valley lines are in the rail model, with horns at crossings outside quiet zones, so the 24 h value near the airport can hold road, train and aircraft parts. The Burbank area page shows which source the model finds largest across the city.

Runways and flight tracks

The runway data the map uses lists two runways at Burbank: 8/26, about 5,802 feet long, running east to west, and 15/33, about 6,886 feet, running north-northwest to south-southeast (OurAirports, public domain). With the Aircraft switch on, the map replays recorded flights of one sample day below 15,000 feet as moving lights, with a line only where a flight is likely to be heard on the ground. It is an illustrative replay, sped up. No aircraft is identified, and one day does not show how often flights pass over a street.

See How it’s made for the method and Sources & methods for every report the contours come from.

What the map does not show

• Individual flights, departures or overflights, and how many there are on a given day.
• Helicopters. See helicopter noise in Los Angeles.
• Aircraft noise below 55 CNEL, which people can still hear.
• An official or measured aircraft level, or any official airport disclosure. The layer is an estimate derived from the official contours. See Limits.

Area pages whose boundary lies within 3 km of the Hollywood Burbank Airport reference point, alphabetically: Burbank, Foothill Trails District, Los Angeles, NoHo, North Hollywood Northeast, Sun Valley Area. Distance to the airport is the only thing this list says; each page has its own modeled figures.

Which areas lie inside the Hollywood Burbank Airport 65 CNEL contour?

This list uses the airport’s published 65 CNEL contour: the line in Quarterly Noise Monitoring at Bob Hope Airport - 4th Quarter - 2024, received by Quiet LA on 4 February 2025. It is the outermost official line the map starts from. An area page is listed when more than 0.01 square kilometers of the area lie inside that line, found by laying the official contour over the area boundaries.

Cities and communities: Burbank, Los Angeles.

Neighborhood Council areas in the City of Los Angeles: North Hollywood Northeast, Sun Valley Area.

The lists are alphabetical and in no other order. Being on one says nothing about the sound at any address in the area: the contour comes from the document named above, and Quiet LA’s aircraft estimate is derived from it, in the 24 h view only. Each area page has its own modeled figures.

Burbank is on the Burbank area page with its modeled figures, the sources near it and the areas next to it.

Where to send a Burbank Airport noise complaint

Contacts checked against the airport and FAA pages on 21 October 2026. Phone numbers change, so confirm on the agency page before you call.

The airport’s Noise menu lists a toll-free 24-hour noise hotline at (800) 441-0409 and a daytime telephone number, (818) 840-8840. The same menu leads to pages on noise monitoring, noise rules, a task force and a voluntary curfew.

The FAA regulates aircraft noise standards, flight procedures and air traffic. For noise from a local airport, it says to contact the airport first; for general concerns it directs people to its ANCIR Portal. Other noise has other contacts: see who to call about noise in Los Angeles.