McKean County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics

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

FARS records 56 deaths in 51 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.8 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Pennsylvania in the same years is 9.0.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, McKean County was number 54 of 67 counties of Pennsylvania.

Deaths in McKean County fell by 33.3% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (84) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (56).

In the counties of Pennsylvania the deaths fell by 14.8% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 90.2% of the fatal crashes in McKean County with a known setting were rural, against 45.3% in Pennsylvania.

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 McKean 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.McKean 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	1 or 2
2023	7	7	1 or 2
2022	5	5	1 or 2
2021	5	5	1 or 2
2020	3	3	0
2019	13	8	3
2018	4	4	1 or 2
2017	3	3	1 or 2
2016	7	7	1 or 2
2015	7	7	3
2015 to 2024	56	51	15

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 20 (1976)2024: 1 or 2

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

Table 2.McKean County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	1 or 2	1 or 2
2023	7	7
2022	5	5
2021	5	5
2020	3	3
2019	13	8
2018	4	4
2017	3	3
2016	7	7
2015	7	7
2014	8	8
2013	15	9
2012	8	7
2011	12	10
2010	6	5
2009	5	3
2008	12	11
2007	9	9
2006	3	3
2005	6	5
2004	6	6
2003	3	3
2002	14	13
2001	5	4
2000	7	7
1999	10	10
1998	11	11
1997	7	7
1996	9	8
1995	6	6
1994	14	12
1993	13	11
1992	9	6
1991	17	15
1990	12	10
1989	14	12
1988	10	10
1987	11	8
1986	14	10
1985	17	14
1984	9	9
1983	14	9
1982	3	3
1981	16	14
1980	13	11
1979	11	11
1978	12	12
1977	13	11
1976	20	15
1975	14	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.McKean County beside Pennsylvania and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	McKean County	Pennsylvania	United States
2024	n/a	8.6	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.8	9.0	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. No rate is given for a count of 1 or 2.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. McKean County had 39,289 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.McKean County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
A driver recorded as drinkingof 51 fatal crashes	15	51 fatal crashes	29.4%	25.4%
A speeding-related driverof 51 fatal crashes	27	51 fatal crashes	52.9%	40.2%
No restraint usedof 44 occupant deaths with restraint use known	21	44 occupant deathswith restraint use known	47.7%	57.8%
Pedestriansof 56 deaths	1 or 2	56 deaths	3.6%	14.3%
Bicyclistsof 56 deaths	1 or 2	56 deaths	1.8%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 56 deaths	7	56 deaths	12.5%	17.3%
On a rural roadof 51 fatal crashes with the condition reported	46	51 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	90.2%	45.3%
In the darkof 51 fatal crashes with the condition reported	17	51 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	33.3%	43.6%

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.McKean 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	4	3	1 or 2	0	9
Monday	1 or 2	0	5	0	6
Tuesday	1 or 2	4	4	3	12
Wednesday	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	1 or 2	4
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	4
Saturday	0	1 or 2	3	5	10
All days	8	15	17	11	51

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.McKean County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
Interstate	0	0.0%	9.9%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	3.2%
Other principal arterial	17	33.3%	28.1%
Minor arterial	13	25.5%	22.4%
Major collector	11	21.6%	13.1%
Minor collector	0	0.0%	4.2%
Local	10	19.6%	19.1%
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.McKean County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	32
Dark, not lighted	16
Dark, lighted	1 or 2
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.McKean County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	30
Cloudy	3
Rain	4
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	3
Fog, smog or smoke	0
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	11

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in McKean County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In McKean	In all of Pennsylvania
State Route 4004	State highway	1 or 2	22
US Route 6	US highway	8	98
US Route 219	US highway	8	38

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 Pennsylvania

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.McKean County on the county map of Pennsylvania

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

Fewer than 1019 counties
10 to 14.928 counties
15 to 19.917 counties
20 to 29.92 counties
30 or more1 county
McKean County: 13.8

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 Pennsylvania

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with McKean County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Allegany County	New York	8	46	9.9
Cattaraugus County	New York	7	87	11.4
Cameron County	Pennsylvania	1 or 2	8	17.7
Elk County	Pennsylvania	0	37	12.2
Potter County	Pennsylvania	1 or 2	30	18.2
Warren County	Pennsylvania	5	55	14.2

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Pennsylvania have a population nearest to that of McKean 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.
Pennsylvania Department of TransportationThe highway safety office of Pennsylvania.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. McKean County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/pa/mckean/. 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 McKean in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 84 deaths in McKean County from 2005 to 2014. It records 56 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 15 of 51 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 McKean?

FARS records 1 or 2 fatal crashes on State Route 4004 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 8 fatal crashes on US Route 6 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 8 fatal crashes on US Route 219 in the county from 2015 to 2024.