Orleans County, New York: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 3 deaths in 3 fatal crashes in Orleans County in 2024.

FARS records 40 deaths in 34 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 9.9 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, Orleans County was number 55 of 62 counties of New York.

Deaths in Orleans County fell by 28.6% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (56) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (40).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 88.2% of the fatal crashes in Orleans 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 Orleans 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.Orleans County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	3	3	0
2023	8	7	6
2022	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2021	4	4	0
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2019	7	4	0
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	11	9	1 or 2
2016	4	4	0
2015	0	0	0
2015 to 2024	40	34	9

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 17 (1979)2024: 3

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

Table 2.Orleans County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	3	3
2023	8	7
2022	1 or 2	1 or 2
2021	4	4
2020	1 or 2	1 or 2
2019	7	4
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	11	9
2016	4	4
2015	0	0
2014	4	4
2013	7	7
2012	4	4
2011	5	5
2010	3	3
2009	6	6
2008	7	7
2007	6	6
2006	8	6
2005	6	6
2004	6	5
2003	13	12
2002	6	6
2001	10	9
2000	3	3
1999	6	6
1998	11	11
1997	9	8
1996	13	12
1995	5	5
1994	6	5
1993	15	10
1992	9	8
1991	5	5
1990	11	8
1989	10	8
1988	10	9
1987	8	7
1986	7	7
1985	5	5
1984	8	8
1983	5	5
1982	8	8
1981	13	13
1980	6	3
1979	17	13
1978	14	14
1977	6	6
1976	15	12
1975	5	4

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.Orleans County beside New York and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Orleans County	New York	United States
2024	7.5	5.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	9.9	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. Orleans County had 39,886 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Orleans County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in New York
A driver recorded as drinkingof 34 fatal crashes	9	34 fatal crashes	26.5%	20.2%
A speeding-related driverof 34 fatal crashes	10	34 fatal crashes	29.4%	30.9%
No restraint usedof 29 occupant deaths with restraint use known	12	29 occupant deathswith restraint use known	41.4%	38.5%
Pedestriansof 40 deaths	1 or 2	40 deaths	2.5%	26.3%
Bicyclistsof 40 deaths	0	40 deaths	0.0%	4.0%
Motorcyclistsof 40 deaths	5	40 deaths	12.5%	16.4%
On a rural roadof 34 fatal crashes with the condition reported	30	34 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	88.2%	30.4%
In the darkof 34 fatal crashes with the condition reported	13	34 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	38.2%	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.Orleans 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	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	6
Monday	0	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	1 or 2
Tuesday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	8
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	5
Thursday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	3
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Saturday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
All days	7	10	10	7	34

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.Orleans 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	0	0.0%	6.9%
Other principal arterial	13	38.2%	29.1%
Minor arterial	6	17.6%	19.6%
Major collector	3	8.8%	9.5%
Minor collector	5	14.7%	2.9%
Local	7	20.6%	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.Orleans County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	19
Dark, not lighted	10
Dark, lighted	3
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Orleans County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	18
Cloudy	8
Rain	4
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
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 Orleans County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Orleans	In all of New York
State Route 31	State highway	8	73
State Route 104	State highway	5	83

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.Orleans 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
Orleans County: 9.9

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 Orleans County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Genesee County	New York	3	85	14.7
Monroe County	New York	47	449	6.0
Niagara County	New York	18	180	8.5

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 Orleans 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. Orleans County, New York: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ny/orleans/. 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 Orleans in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 56 deaths in Orleans County from 2005 to 2014. It records 40 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Orleans in 2024?

The rate of Orleans County in 2024 was 7.5 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 Orleans had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 9 of 34 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 Orleans?

FARS records 8 fatal crashes on State Route 31 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 5 fatal crashes on State Route 104 in the county from 2015 to 2024.