Gooding County, Idaho: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 7 deaths in 7 fatal crashes in Gooding County in 2024.

FARS records 46 deaths in 43 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 29.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Idaho in the same years is 13.1.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Gooding County was number 16 of 44 counties of Idaho.

Deaths in Gooding County fell by 17.9% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (56) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (46).

In the counties of Idaho the deaths rose by 7.9% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 100.0% of the fatal crashes in Gooding County with a known setting were rural, against 74.5% in Idaho.

To qualify as a FARS case, the crash had to involve a motor vehicle traveling on a trafficway customarily open to the public and must have resulted in the death of a motorist or a non-motorist within 30 days of the crash.
The set of first files, known as the Annual Report File (ARF), is released following the crash year. The ARF is replaced about a year later with a final file, which contains additional cases or updates to cases that had become available after the ARF was released.
NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

This page rests on the FARS 2024 annual file. NHTSA released it on 1 Apr 2026. NHTSA can revise the counts in the final file. Release dates

Figure 1.Deaths in Gooding County by year, 2015 to 2024

1 or 2

Table 1 has the numbers. Go to the table

Since the last update: no figure of this county has a change on record.

Deaths and fatal crashes by year

Table 1.Gooding County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	7	7	1 or 2
2023	4	3	1 or 2
2022	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2021	4	4	3
2020	9	9	1 or 2
2019	5	4	1 or 2
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2017	6	6	3
2016	4	4	1 or 2
2015	4	3	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	46	43	15

Each year from 1975

Figure 2.Deaths in Gooding County by year, 1975 to 2024

Tallest column: 14 (2000)2024: 7

The columns with a stronger shade are the years 2015 to 2024.

Table 2.Gooding County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	7	7
2023	4	3
2022	1 or 2	1 or 2
2021	4	4
2020	9	9
2019	5	4
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	6	6
2016	4	4
2015	4	3
2014	4	4
2013	10	10
2012	9	6
2011	3	3
2010	3	1 or 2
2009	1 or 2	1 or 2
2008	5	4
2007	1 or 2	1 or 2
2006	8	7
2005	10	9
2004	5	3
2003	4	4
2002	5	4
2001	11	9
2000	14	14
1999	10	10
1998	9	7
1997	1 or 2	1 or 2
1996	8	6
1995	9	8
1994	6	5
1993	9	9
1992	4	4
1991	3	3
1990	3	3
1989	7	6
1988	7	6
1987	5	5
1986	4	4
1985	6	4
1984	8	7
1983	1 or 2	1 or 2
1982	3	1 or 2
1981	5	5
1980	1 or 2	1 or 2
1979	6	6
1978	4	4
1977	7	7
1976	4	4
1975	3	3

Note: a count of 1 or 2 is written "1 or 2". A death is in FARS when it occurs in 30 days or less after the crash.

Rate for each 100,000 residents

Table 3.Gooding County beside Idaho and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Gooding County	Idaho	United States
2024	42.7	11.9	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	29.5	13.1	11.8

Note: the rate divides the deaths in the county by its residents. Persons who do not live in the county are in the deaths, not in the residents.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. Gooding County had 16,399 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Gooding County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Idaho
A driver recorded as drinkingof 43 fatal crashes	15	43 fatal crashes	34.9%	31.2%
A speeding-related driverof 43 fatal crashes	8	43 fatal crashes	18.6%	22.4%
No restraint usedof 38 occupant deaths with restraint use known	26	38 occupant deathswith restraint use known	68.4%	58.3%
Pedestriansof 46 deaths	1 or 2	46 deaths	4.3%	6.9%
Bicyclistsof 46 deaths	0	46 deaths	0.0%	1.4%
Motorcyclistsof 46 deaths	1 or 2	46 deaths	4.3%	13.1%
On a rural roadof 43 fatal crashes with the condition reported	43	43 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	100.0%	74.5%
In the darkof 43 fatal crashes with the condition reported	22	43 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	51.2%	35.7%

Note: FARS records a driver as drinking when police reported alcohol involvement or a test of the driver was positive for alcohol. It is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure, which uses a blood alcohol concentration of .08 g/dL or higher. One crash can be in two or more rows. NHTSA's definitions

Note that alcohol data is often missing. For that reason, this data element may under-count the actual number of drinking drivers.

NHTSA's words. Source: NHTSA, Fatality Analysis Reporting System Analytical User's Manual, 1975-2024 (DOT HS 813 794, April 2026), copied on 2 Oct 2026.

Weekday, time and road class

Table 5.Gooding County: fatal crashes by weekday and time of day, 2015 to 2024
Weekday	Midnight to 6 a.m.	6 a.m. to noon	Noon to 6 p.m.	6 p.m. to midnight	All
Sunday	3	1 or 2	4	0	9
Monday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
Tuesday	0	0	0	1 or 2	1 or 2
Wednesday	3	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	9
Thursday	3	0	1 or 2	0	5
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	0	6
Saturday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	5
All days	16	8	14	4	42

Note: a cell with a stronger shade has a larger count. The table has the fatal crashes with a known hour and weekday.

Table 6.Gooding County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Idaho
Interstate	14	32.6%	15.8%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.2%
Other principal arterial	1 or 2	2.3%	32.9%
Minor arterial	3	7.0%	16.0%
Major collector	12	27.9%	17.4%
Minor collector	1 or 2	4.7%	3.0%
Local	11	25.6%	13.8%
Not reported	0	n/a	n/a

Note: the classes are those of the Federal Highway Administration. The shares are of the crashes with a reported class. Road function classes

Light condition and weather

Table 7.Gooding County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	20
Dark, not lighted	20
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Gooding County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	33
Cloudy	6
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	0

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Gooding County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Gooding	In all of Idaho
Interstate 84	Interstate	14	200
US Route 26	US highway	1 or 2	40
US Route 30	US highway	1 or 2	53

Note: the table has each route with a page that has a fatal crash in the county, in name order. Local streets and county roads have no page. Their crashes are in the county totals. All routes in Idaho

Adjacent counties

These lists are for navigation. They are in name order.

Figure 3.Gooding County on the county map of Idaho

Deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year, 2015 to 2024

Fewer than 104 counties
10 to 14.98 counties
15 to 19.98 counties
20 to 29.914 counties
30 or more10 counties
Gooding County: 29.5

The limits of the classes are the same for every state. A county with few residents can show a high rate from few deaths. A class is not a judgement of a county. The full map and the table of counties of Idaho

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Gooding County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Camas County	Idaho	0	4	35.2
Elmore County	Idaho	3	90	32.2
Jerome County	Idaho	7	100	40.8
Lincoln County	Idaho	5	31	57.8
Twin Falls County	Idaho	14	112	12.5

Source of the list: Census Bureau county adjacency file, 2026 edition.

Counties of similar population

These counties of Idaho have a population nearest to that of Gooding County. The list is for navigation and is in name order. The number is the deaths from 2015 to 2024.

Official channels

NHTSA Fatality and Injury Reporting System Tool (FIRST)NHTSA's query tool for FARS counts.
NHTSA FARS EncyclopediaNHTSA's tables of FARS data.
Idaho Office of Highway SafetyThe highway safety office of Idaho.

These links go to the sites of the agencies. They were checked on 2 Oct 2026.

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Gooding County, Idaho: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/id/gooding/. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, FARS 2024 annual file. Data to 31 Dec 2024.

The address of this page does not change.

Source of the figures

Counts: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System, national files of 1975 to 2024. The factors use the vehicle and person files from 2015. Residents: Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, vintage 2025. Map: Census Bureau cartographic boundary file, 2021 edition. Data to 31 Dec 2024. The figures are totals. No page of this site is about one crash or one person.

How the figures are made. Data sources and licences. Corrections.

Questions

How many deaths did FARS record in Gooding in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 56 deaths in Gooding County from 2005 to 2014. It records 46 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Gooding in 2024?

The rate of Gooding County in 2024 was 42.7 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Idaho was 11.9. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

How many fatal crashes in Gooding had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 15 of 43 fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024. This count is not NHTSA's alcohol-impaired measure. NHTSA says that alcohol data is often missing, so the count may be too low.

How many fatal crashes did FARS record on signed routes in Gooding?

FARS records 14 fatal crashes on Interstate 84 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 1 or 2 fatal crashes on US Route 26 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 1 or 2 fatal crashes on US Route 30 in the county from 2015 to 2024.