Mifflin County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics

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

FARS records 56 deaths in 52 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 12.1 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, Mifflin County was number 54 of 67 counties of Pennsylvania.

Deaths in Mifflin County fell by 21.1% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (71) 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, 61.5% of the fatal crashes in Mifflin 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 Mifflin 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.Mifflin 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	8	8	1 or 2
2022	8	7	1 or 2
2021	5	5	1 or 2
2020	11	10	1 or 2
2019	7	7	1 or 2
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	7	6	3
2016	3	3	0
2015	4	3	0
2015 to 2024	56	52	14

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 19 (1977)2024: 1 or 2

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

Table 2.Mifflin County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	1 or 2	1 or 2
2023	8	8
2022	8	7
2021	5	5
2020	11	10
2019	7	7
2018	1 or 2	1 or 2
2017	7	6
2016	3	3
2015	4	3
2014	5	4
2013	9	9
2012	4	4
2011	9	7
2010	8	7
2009	11	9
2008	6	4
2007	4	4
2006	5	5
2005	10	8
2004	4	4
2003	8	8
2002	11	9
2001	5	5
2000	3	3
1999	6	6
1998	3	3
1997	8	8
1996	8	7
1995	4	4
1994	6	5
1993	12	11
1992	16	13
1991	14	11
1990	7	7
1989	12	12
1988	14	14
1987	16	14
1986	10	9
1985	8	6
1984	4	4
1983	9	7
1982	12	10
1981	16	14
1980	10	10
1979	12	10
1978	8	6
1977	19	16
1976	9	9
1975	13	12

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.Mifflin County beside Pennsylvania and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Mifflin County	Pennsylvania	United States
2024	n/a	8.6	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	12.1	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. Mifflin County had 46,023 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Mifflin County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
A driver recorded as drinkingof 52 fatal crashes	14	52 fatal crashes	26.9%	25.4%
A speeding-related driverof 52 fatal crashes	23	52 fatal crashes	44.2%	40.2%
No restraint usedof 36 occupant deaths with restraint use known	23	36 occupant deathswith restraint use known	63.9%	57.8%
Pedestriansof 56 deaths	5	56 deaths	8.9%	14.3%
Bicyclistsof 56 deaths	0	56 deaths	0.0%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 56 deaths	10	56 deaths	17.9%	17.3%
On a rural roadof 52 fatal crashes with the condition reported	32	52 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	61.5%	45.3%
In the darkof 52 fatal crashes with the condition reported	18	52 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	34.6%	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.Mifflin 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	3	9
Monday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Wednesday	0	1 or 2	5	1 or 2	9
Thursday	0	3	5	1 or 2	10
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Saturday	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	1 or 2	9
All days	6	16	18	12	52

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.Mifflin 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	8	15.4%	3.2%
Other principal arterial	20	38.5%	28.1%
Minor arterial	10	19.2%	22.4%
Major collector	3	5.8%	13.1%
Minor collector	5	9.6%	4.2%
Local	6	11.5%	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.Mifflin County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	30
Dark, not lighted	12
Dark, lighted	6
Dawn	3
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Mifflin County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	25
Cloudy	1 or 2
Rain	4
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	1 or 2
Other or not reported	17

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Mifflin County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Mifflin	In all of Pennsylvania
State Route 1002	State highway	1 or 2	26
State Route 1005	State highway	3	34
State Route 2001	State highway	1 or 2	34
State Route 2002	State highway	1 or 2	25
State Route 2004	State highway	1 or 2	24
State Route 3007	State highway	1 or 2	43
State Route 4004	State highway	1 or 2	22
US Route 22	US highway	11	136
US Route 322	US highway	5	101

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.Mifflin 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
Mifflin County: 12.1

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 Mifflin County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Centre County	Pennsylvania	7	129	8.1
Huntingdon County	Pennsylvania	3	62	13.9
Juniata County	Pennsylvania	1 or 2	42	17.5
Snyder County	Pennsylvania	6	54	13.5
Union County	Pennsylvania	4	47	10.7

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 Mifflin 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. Mifflin County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/pa/mifflin/. 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 Mifflin in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 71 deaths in Mifflin County from 2005 to 2014. It records 56 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 14 of 52 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 Mifflin?

9 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 26 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.