Schoharie County, New York: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 1 or 2 deaths in 1 or 2 fatal crashes in Schoharie County in 2024.

FARS records 57 deaths in 35 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 18.6 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, Schoharie County was number 46 of 62 counties of New York.

Deaths in Schoharie County rose by 103.6% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (28) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (57).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 80.0% of the fatal crashes in Schoharie 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 Schoharie 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.Schoharie County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2023	4	4	0
2022	3	3	0
2021	6	5	1 or 2
2020	5	4	0
2019	3	3	0
2018	28	8	1 or 2
2017	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2016	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2015	1 or 2	1 or 2	0
2015 to 2024	57	35	1 or 2

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 28 (2018)2024: 1 or 2

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

Table 2.Schoharie County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	1 or 2	1 or 2
2023	4	4
2022	3	3
2021	6	5
2020	5	4
2019	3	3
2018	28	8
2017	1 or 2	1 or 2
2016	1 or 2	1 or 2
2015	1 or 2	1 or 2
2014	4	4
2013	1 or 2	1 or 2
2012	4	3
2011	1 or 2	1 or 2
2010	3	3
2009	1 or 2	1 or 2
2008	0	0
2007	1 or 2	1 or 2
2006	5	5
2005	6	5
2004	5	4
2003	5	5
2002	1 or 2	1 or 2
2001	7	7
2000	1 or 2	1 or 2
1999	9	6
1998	9	8
1997	7	5
1996	7	7
1995	12	8
1994	9	7
1993	0	0
1992	12	9
1991	7	7
1990	9	9
1989	6	5
1988	9	8
1987	11	11
1986	6	5
1985	8	8
1984	5	5
1983	5	5
1982	5	5
1981	9	9
1980	8	8
1979	15	13
1978	5	5
1977	5	4
1976	11	10
1975	10	9

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.Schoharie County beside New York and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Schoharie County	New York	United States
2024	n/a	5.5	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	18.6	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. No rate is given for a count of 1 or 2.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. Schoharie County had 30,235 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Schoharie County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in New York
A driver recorded as drinkingof 35 fatal crashes	1 or 2	35 fatal crashes	5.7%	20.2%
A speeding-related driverof 35 fatal crashes	7	35 fatal crashes	20.0%	30.9%
No restraint usedof 42 occupant deaths with restraint use known	23	42 occupant deathswith restraint use known	54.8%	38.5%
Pedestriansof 57 deaths	4	57 deaths	7.0%	26.3%
Bicyclistsof 57 deaths	1 or 2	57 deaths	1.8%	4.0%
Motorcyclistsof 57 deaths	7	57 deaths	12.3%	16.4%
On a rural roadof 35 fatal crashes with the condition reported	28	35 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	80.0%	30.4%
In the darkof 35 fatal crashes with the condition reported	6	35 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	17.1%	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.Schoharie 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	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Monday	0	0	3	1 or 2	4
Tuesday	0	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	6
Wednesday	0	0	3	1 or 2	5
Thursday	0	0	3	0	3
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	5	8
Saturday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
All days	1 or 2	4	17	13	35

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.Schoharie 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	1 or 2	5.7%	29.1%
Minor arterial	14	40.0%	19.6%
Major collector	6	17.1%	9.5%
Minor collector	1 or 2	5.7%	2.9%
Local	11	31.4%	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.Schoharie County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	26
Dark, not lighted	4
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	0
Dusk	3
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Schoharie County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	21
Cloudy	5
Rain	5
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	0
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	3

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Schoharie County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Schoharie	In all of New York
State Route 7	State highway	3	45
State Route 30	State highway	5	23
US Route 20	US highway	1 or 2	97

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.Schoharie 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
Schoharie County: 18.6

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 Schoharie County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Albany County	New York	17	197	6.3
Delaware County	New York	13	67	15.0
Greene County	New York	7	73	15.4
Montgomery County	New York	1 or 2	39	7.9
Otsego County	New York	7	44	7.3
Schenectady County	New York	17	96	6.1

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

FARS records 28 deaths in Schoharie County from 2005 to 2014. It records 57 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 1 or 2 of 35 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 Schoharie?

FARS records 3 fatal crashes on State Route 7 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 5 fatal crashes on State Route 30 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 1 or 2 fatal crashes on US Route 20 in the county from 2015 to 2024.