Beckham County, Oklahoma: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 5 deaths in 5 fatal crashes in Beckham County in 2024.

FARS records 67 deaths in 57 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 30.2 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Oklahoma in the same years is 17.0.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Beckham County was number 35 of 77 counties of Oklahoma.

Deaths in Beckham County fell by 30.2% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (96) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (67).

In the counties of Oklahoma the deaths fell by 6.6% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 86.0% of the fatal crashes in Beckham County with a known setting were rural, against 59.5% in Oklahoma.

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 Beckham 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.Beckham County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	5	5	1 or 2
2023	12	6	1 or 2
2022	6	6	1 or 2
2021	3	3	1 or 2
2020	8	6	1 or 2
2019	6	5	1 or 2
2018	5	5	1 or 2
2017	5	5	1 or 2
2016	8	8	1 or 2
2015	9	8	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	67	57	12

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 21 (1982)2024: 5

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

Table 2.Beckham County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	5	5
2023	12	6
2022	6	6
2021	3	3
2020	8	6
2019	6	5
2018	5	5
2017	5	5
2016	8	8
2015	9	8
2014	6	4
2013	4	4
2012	9	8
2011	6	5
2010	4	4
2009	10	9
2008	16	13
2007	14	10
2006	12	11
2005	15	14
2004	5	1 or 2
2003	6	4
2002	5	4
2001	12	10
2000	3	3
1999	11	8
1998	10	7
1997	11	7
1996	6	6
1995	6	6
1994	9	8
1993	9	7
1992	6	5
1991	3	3
1990	13	12
1989	11	11
1988	12	11
1987	7	7
1986	5	5
1985	10	8
1984	6	4
1983	10	7
1982	21	17
1981	14	14
1980	9	9
1979	7	7
1978	10	9
1977	5	5
1976	6	3
1975	7	7

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.Beckham County beside Oklahoma and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Beckham County	Oklahoma	United States
2024	22.5	15.7	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	30.2	17.0	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. Beckham County had 22,186 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Beckham County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Oklahoma
A driver recorded as drinkingof 57 fatal crashes	12	57 fatal crashes	21.1%	26.5%
A speeding-related driverof 57 fatal crashes	14	57 fatal crashes	24.6%	26.0%
No restraint usedof 55 occupant deaths with restraint use known	38	55 occupant deathswith restraint use known	69.1%	53.7%
Pedestriansof 67 deaths	1 or 2	67 deaths	3.0%	12.3%
Bicyclistsof 67 deaths	1 or 2	67 deaths	1.5%	1.6%
Motorcyclistsof 67 deaths	7	67 deaths	10.4%	12.9%
On a rural roadof 57 fatal crashes with the condition reported	49	57 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	86.0%	59.5%
In the darkof 56 fatal crashes with the condition reported	28	56 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	50.0%	45.2%

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.Beckham 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	5	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	12
Monday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	3
Tuesday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	8
Thursday	1 or 2	0	0	7	8
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Saturday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	4	12
All days	12	8	15	20	55

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.Beckham County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Oklahoma
Interstate	19	33.3%	13.5%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.9%
Other principal arterial	3	5.3%	26.1%
Minor arterial	7	12.3%	20.1%
Major collector	16	28.1%	24.0%
Minor collector	1 or 2	1.8%	0.6%
Local	11	19.3%	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.Beckham County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	26
Dark, not lighted	26
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Beckham County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	43
Cloudy	10
Rain	1 or 2
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
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 Beckham County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Beckham	In all of Oklahoma
Interstate 40	Interstate	18	263
State Route 66	State highway	1 or 2	67
State Route 152	State highway	6	32

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 Oklahoma

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Beckham County on the county map of Oklahoma

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

Fewer than 102 counties
10 to 14.99 counties
15 to 19.915 counties
20 to 29.922 counties
30 or more29 counties
Beckham County: 30.2

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 Oklahoma

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Beckham County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Custer County	Oklahoma	1 or 2	59	20.6
Greer County	Oklahoma	1 or 2	14	24.7
Harmon County	Oklahoma	0	4	15.6
Kiowa County	Oklahoma	5	26	30.1
Roger Mills County	Oklahoma	3	12	34.1
Washita County	Oklahoma	0	34	30.8
Collingsworth County	Texas	0	11	39.6
Wheeler County	Texas	7	40	78.5

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Oklahoma have a population nearest to that of Beckham 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. Beckham County, Oklahoma: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ok/beckham/. 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 Beckham in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 96 deaths in Beckham County from 2005 to 2014. It records 67 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Beckham in 2024?

The rate of Beckham County in 2024 was 22.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Oklahoma was 15.7. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 12 of 57 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 Beckham?

FARS records 18 fatal crashes on Interstate 40 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 1 or 2 fatal crashes on State Route 66 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 6 fatal crashes on State Route 152 in the county from 2015 to 2024.