Wolves in the wild usually do not pose a threat to humans. Wolves are very cautious animals that generally avoid contact with humans.

Has a wolf ever killed a human?

It was the first fatal wolf attack in Alaska, and only the second documented case of a wild wolf killing a human in North America. ... In the only other documented fatality, a pack of wolves killed Kenton Joel, a 22-year-old Ontario engineering student, in the woods of northern Saskatchewan on Nov. 8, 2005.

Will a wolf attack you?

From the small number of documented attacks, it can be concluded that the vast majority of wolves do not pose any threat to human safety. ... Most of the unprovoked attacks by healthy wild wolves that have occurred were caused by wolves that became fearless of humans due to habituation.