Chenango County, New York: fatal crash statistics

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

FARS records 62 deaths in 58 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of New York in the same years is 5.4.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Chenango County was number 44 of 62 counties of New York.

Deaths in Chenango County fell by 10.1% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (69) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (62).

In the counties of New York the deaths fell by 13.9% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 87.9% of the fatal crashes in Chenango County with a known setting were rural, against 30.4% in New York.

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 Chenango County by year, 2015 to 2024

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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.Chenango County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	7	7	4
2023	4	4	1 or 2
2022	9	9	3
2021	4	4	1 or 2
2020	13	11	1 or 2
2019	6	6	1 or 2
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	6	6	1 or 2
2016	5	4	0
2015	6	5	0
2015 to 2024	62	58	14

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 23 (1979)2024: 7

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

Table 2.Chenango County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	7	7
2023	4	4
2022	9	9
2021	4	4
2020	13	11
2019	6	6
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	6	6
2016	5	4
2015	6	5
2014	4	4
2013	9	8
2012	9	8
2011	7	6
2010	9	9
2009	6	6
2008	10	9
2007	9	9
2006	4	4
2005	1 or 2	1 or 2
2004	11	11
2003	11	11
2002	7	7
2001	10	9
2000	11	10
1999	7	7
1998	7	7
1997	11	11
1996	9	9
1995	11	8
1994	4	4
1993	12	12
1992	13	13
1991	10	10
1990	9	9
1989	11	11
1988	8	8
1987	23	21
1986	12	11
1985	17	13
1984	10	8
1983	20	14
1982	15	12
1981	11	9
1980	12	12
1979	23	19
1978	9	7
1977	15	14
1976	10	9
1975	15	11

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.Chenango County beside New York and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Chenango County	New York	United States
2024	15.3	5.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.2	5.4	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. Chenango County had 45,793 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Chenango County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in New York
A driver recorded as drinkingof 58 fatal crashes	14	58 fatal crashes	24.1%	20.2%
A speeding-related driverof 58 fatal crashes	22	58 fatal crashes	37.9%	30.9%
No restraint usedof 43 occupant deaths with restraint use known	14	43 occupant deathswith restraint use known	32.6%	38.5%
Pedestriansof 62 deaths	4	62 deaths	6.5%	26.3%
Bicyclistsof 62 deaths	1 or 2	62 deaths	3.2%	4.0%
Motorcyclistsof 62 deaths	11	62 deaths	17.7%	16.4%
On a rural roadof 58 fatal crashes with the condition reported	51	58 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	87.9%	30.4%
In the darkof 58 fatal crashes with the condition reported	20	58 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	34.5%	46.9%

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.Chenango 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	1 or 2	0	4	0	5
Monday	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	1 or 2	9
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	1 or 2	8
Wednesday	0	3	1 or 2	4	8
Thursday	0	1 or 2	4	4	9
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	8
Saturday	1 or 2	3	3	3	11
All days	7	13	22	16	58

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.Chenango County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in New York
Interstate	0	0.0%	7.6%
Other freeways and expressways	1 or 2	1.7%	6.9%
Other principal arterial	19	32.8%	29.1%
Minor arterial	11	19.0%	19.6%
Major collector	7	12.1%	9.5%
Minor collector	7	12.1%	2.9%
Local	13	22.4%	24.6%
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.Chenango County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	35
Dark, not lighted	20
Dark, lighted	0
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Chenango County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	14
Cloudy	36
Rain	1 or 2
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	3
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Chenango County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Chenango	In all of New York
State Route 7	State highway	1 or 2	45
State Route 8	State highway	5	24
State Route 12	State highway	15	47
State Route 23	State highway	1 or 2	37
State Route 26	State highway	1 or 2	22

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 New York

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Chenango County on the county map of New York

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

Fewer than 1040 counties
10 to 14.917 counties
15 to 19.95 counties
20 to 29.90 counties
30 or more0 counties
Chenango County: 13.2

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 New York

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Chenango County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Broome County	New York	10	126	6.5
Cortland County	New York	4	43	9.1
Delaware County	New York	13	67	15.0
Madison County	New York	10	73	10.5
Otsego County	New York	7	44	7.3

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of New York have a population nearest to that of Chenango 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.
New York Governor's Traffic Safety CommitteeThe highway safety office of New York.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Chenango County, New York: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ny/chenango/. 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 Chenango in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 69 deaths in Chenango County from 2005 to 2014. It records 62 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Chenango in 2024?

The rate of Chenango County in 2024 was 15.3 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of New York was 5.5. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 14 of 58 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 Chenango?

5 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 24 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.