Fatal crashes, county by county

FARS data are based on police crash reports and other sources; the drunk-driving measure is based on the highest BAC of any driver in the crash. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System, annual files through 2024; rates use Census Bureau population estimates.

United States since 1975

States

Deaths per 100,000 residents a year, 2015–2024. Each state page ranks its counties, lists its routes and links to a page for every year since 1975.

• Alabama 19.3
• Alaska 9.8
• Arizona 15.2
• Arkansas 19.3
• California 10.1
• Colorado 11.4
• Connecticut 8.3
• Delaware 13.0
• District of Columbia 4.9
• Florida 15.1
• Georgia 14.8
• Hawaii 7.2
• Idaho 13.1
• Illinois 9.0
• Indiana 13.0
• Iowa 10.9
• Kansas 13.8
• Kentucky 17.1
• Louisiana 17.3
• Maine 11.7
• Maryland 9.1
• Massachusetts 5.3
• Michigan 10.5
• Minnesota 7.3
• Mississippi 23.8
• Missouri 15.5
• Montana 18.9
• Nebraska 12.1
• Nevada 11.5
• New Hampshire 8.9
• New Jersey 6.7
• New Mexico 19.4
• New York 5.4
• North Carolina 14.5
• North Dakota 13.7
• Ohio 10.1
• Oklahoma 17.0
• Oregon 12.4
• Pennsylvania 9.0
• Rhode Island 5.6
• South Carolina 20.3
• South Dakota 14.9
• Tennessee 16.8
• Texas 13.6
• Utah 8.7
• Vermont 10.1
• Virginia 10.1
• Washington 8.2
• West Virginia 15.2
• Wisconsin 10.2
• Wyoming 21.6

Rates are per resident, not per mile driven; rural states with long distances rank high and dense states low. See the methodology.

Routes with the most fatal crashes

All 2,213 routes with pages. Counts, not rates: long, busy routes head the list.

Large counties with the highest rates

Counties with 250,000 or more residents. Smaller counties on through routes can have far higher rates on few deaths; every county has a page reachable from its state.

Factors

• Alcohol: 26.3% nationally, share of fatal crashes with a driver reported as drinking.
• Speeding: 27.2% nationally, share of fatal crashes with a speeding-related driver.
• Pedestrians: 17.1% nationally, share of people killed who were pedestrians.
• Motorcycles: 14.5% nationally, share of people killed who were motorcyclists.
• Unrestrained occupants: 49.0% nationally, share of vehicle-occupant deaths where no restraint was used, among those with restraint use known.

Guides

• How FARS counts a fatal crash: the 30-day rule, what "involving alcohol" means, what is and is not in the file.
• When a new year of data arrives: why the latest year is 2024 and how NHTSA revises it.
• Road function classes: interstate, arterial, collector and local as FHWA defines them.