Pike County, Pennsylvania: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 10 deaths in 9 fatal crashes in Pike County in 2024.

FARS records 78 deaths in 71 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 13.4 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, Pike County was number 46 of 67 counties of Pennsylvania.

Deaths in Pike County fell by 9.3% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (86) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (78).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 87.3% of the fatal crashes in Pike 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 Pike 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.Pike County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	10	9	3
2023	3	3	1 or 2
2022	9	8	1 or 2
2021	4	4	1 or 2
2020	6	6	1 or 2
2019	19	17	7
2018	10	10	3
2017	4	4	1 or 2
2016	6	6	0
2015	7	4	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	78	71	22

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 19 (1978)2024: 10

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

Table 2.Pike County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	10	9
2023	3	3
2022	9	8
2021	4	4
2020	6	6
2019	19	17
2018	10	10
2017	4	4
2016	6	6
2015	7	4
2014	9	9
2013	8	7
2012	6	6
2011	8	8
2010	7	7
2009	5	5
2008	13	13
2007	9	8
2006	9	8
2005	12	12
2004	10	10
2003	8	8
2002	13	12
2001	11	9
2000	11	10
1999	7	7
1998	14	14
1997	7	5
1996	6	5
1995	10	9
1994	8	7
1993	8	8
1992	6	5
1991	8	7
1990	8	8
1989	9	9
1988	11	10
1987	12	12
1986	8	8
1985	11	10
1984	3	3
1983	8	7
1982	14	12
1981	13	13
1980	14	14
1979	12	11
1978	19	14
1977	13	12
1976	11	11
1975	6	6

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.Pike County beside Pennsylvania and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Pike County	Pennsylvania	United States
2024	16.1	8.6	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	13.4	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.

Population: Census Bureau estimates, vintage 2025. Pike County had 62,264 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Pike County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
A driver recorded as drinkingof 71 fatal crashes	22	71 fatal crashes	31.0%	25.4%
A speeding-related driverof 71 fatal crashes	38	71 fatal crashes	53.5%	40.2%
No restraint usedof 60 occupant deaths with restraint use known	31	60 occupant deathswith restraint use known	51.7%	57.8%
Pedestriansof 78 deaths	1 or 2	78 deaths	2.6%	14.3%
Bicyclistsof 78 deaths	0	78 deaths	0.0%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 78 deaths	13	78 deaths	16.7%	17.3%
On a rural roadof 71 fatal crashes with the condition reported	62	71 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	87.3%	45.3%
In the darkof 71 fatal crashes with the condition reported	34	71 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	47.9%	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.Pike 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	3	3	5	5	16
Monday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
Wednesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	7
Thursday	0	1 or 2	3	5	9
Friday	1 or 2	4	6	3	15
Saturday	4	0	4	4	12
All days	12	12	23	24	71

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.Pike County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Pennsylvania
Interstate	7	9.9%	9.9%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	3.2%
Other principal arterial	5	7.0%	28.1%
Minor arterial	22	31.0%	22.4%
Major collector	19	26.8%	13.1%
Minor collector	8	11.3%	4.2%
Local	10	14.1%	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.Pike County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	36
Dark, not lighted	31
Dark, lighted	3
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	0
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	0

Table 8.Pike County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	28
Cloudy	3
Rain	5
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	5
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	28

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Pike County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Pike	In all of Pennsylvania
State Route 1003	State highway	1 or 2	29
State Route 1005	State highway	1 or 2	34
State Route 2001	State highway	4	34
State Route 3001	State highway	1 or 2	23
State Route 4001	State highway	1 or 2	28
State Route 4003	State highway	1 or 2	26
US Route 6	US highway	13	98
US Route 209	US highway	3	53

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.Pike 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
Pike County: 13.4

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 Pike County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Sussex County	New Jersey	12	107	7.4
Orange County	New York	39	324	8.2
Sullivan County	New York	18	116	15.0
Monroe County	Pennsylvania	18	221	13.2
Wayne County	Pennsylvania	9	86	16.8

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

FARS records 86 deaths in Pike County from 2005 to 2014. It records 78 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Pike in 2024?

The rate of Pike County in 2024 was 16.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Pennsylvania was 8.6. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 22 of 71 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 Pike?

8 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.