Holmes County, Mississippi: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Holmes County in 2024.

FARS records 79 deaths in 71 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 46.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Mississippi in the same years is 23.8.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Holmes County was number 33 of 82 counties of Mississippi.

Deaths in Holmes County fell by 14.1% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (92) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (79).

In the counties of Mississippi the deaths fell by 3.1% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 100.0% of the fatal crashes in Holmes County with a known setting were rural, against 69.8% in Mississippi.

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 Holmes County by year, 2015 to 2024

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.Holmes County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	6	1 or 2
2023	11	9	3
2022	11	9	1 or 2
2021	8	8	1 or 2
2020	7	7	1 or 2
2019	10	7	3
2018	8	8	1 or 2
2017	7	7	3
2016	3	3	1 or 2
2015	8	7	4
2015 to 2024	79	71	21

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 16 (1996)2024: 6

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

Table 2.Holmes County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	6	6
2023	11	9
2022	11	9
2021	8	8
2020	7	7
2019	10	7
2018	8	8
2017	7	7
2016	3	3
2015	8	7
2014	10	5
2013	8	7
2012	7	7
2011	6	6
2010	11	11
2009	13	12
2008	10	8
2007	3	3
2006	9	8
2005	15	13
2004	14	12
2003	8	7
2002	9	8
2001	9	8
2000	11	11
1999	10	9
1998	12	10
1997	10	9
1996	16	12
1995	9	8
1994	14	11
1993	7	7
1992	13	12
1991	11	9
1990	6	5
1989	6	4
1988	7	7
1987	9	7
1986	3	3
1985	6	5
1984	6	6
1983	3	3
1982	7	5
1981	9	7
1980	10	6
1979	11	8
1978	12	11
1977	1 or 2	1 or 2
1976	7	6
1975	1 or 2	1 or 2

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.Holmes County beside Mississippi and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Holmes County	Mississippi	United States
2024	38.4	25.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	46.5	23.8	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. Holmes County had 15,638 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Holmes County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Mississippi
A driver recorded as drinkingof 71 fatal crashes	21	71 fatal crashes	29.6%	18.5%
A speeding-related driverof 71 fatal crashes	5	71 fatal crashes	7.0%	14.8%
No restraint usedof 57 occupant deaths with restraint use known	35	57 occupant deathswith restraint use known	61.4%	53.0%
Pedestriansof 79 deaths	9	79 deaths	11.4%	11.6%
Bicyclistsof 79 deaths	0	79 deaths	0.0%	1.3%
Motorcyclistsof 79 deaths	3	79 deaths	3.8%	6.7%
On a rural roadof 71 fatal crashes with the condition reported	71	71 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	100.0%	69.8%
In the darkof 69 fatal crashes with the condition reported	35	69 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	50.7%	46.7%

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.Holmes 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	3	5	12
Monday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	9
Tuesday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	4
Wednesday	0	0	4	3	7
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	5	10
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	10
Saturday	6	4	6	3	19
All days	14	13	21	23	71

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.Holmes County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Mississippi
Interstate	10	14.1%	12.3%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	0.4%
Other principal arterial	3	4.2%	27.9%
Minor arterial	37	52.1%	22.1%
Major collector	16	22.5%	19.3%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	6.5%
Local	5	7.0%	11.4%
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.Holmes County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	32
Dark, not lighted	31
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	0
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Holmes County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	50
Cloudy	8
Rain	8
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	0
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	1 or 2
Other or not reported	4

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Holmes County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Holmes	In all of Mississippi
Interstate 55	Interstate	10	299
State Route 12	State highway	16	55
State Route 17	State highway	13	23
US Route 49	US highway	7	277
US Route 51	US highway	7	81

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 Mississippi

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Holmes County on the county map of Mississippi

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

Fewer than 100 counties
10 to 14.95 counties
15 to 19.98 counties
20 to 29.936 counties
30 or more33 counties
Holmes County: 46.5

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 Mississippi

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Holmes County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Attala County	Mississippi	11	52	28.9
Carroll County	Mississippi	0	34	34.4
Humphreys County	Mississippi	4	33	41.8
Leflore County	Mississippi	8	58	20.6
Yazoo County	Mississippi	3	62	23.2

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Mississippi have a population nearest to that of Holmes 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.
Governors Highway Safety Association: State Highway Safety OfficesThe list of the highway safety offices of the states.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Holmes County, Mississippi: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ms/holmes/. 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 Holmes in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 92 deaths in Holmes County from 2005 to 2014. It records 79 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Holmes in 2024?

The rate of Holmes County in 2024 was 38.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Mississippi was 25.5. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 21 of 71 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 Holmes?

5 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 53 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.