Emery County, Utah: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 3 deaths in 1 or 2 fatal crashes in Emery County in 2024.

FARS records 53 deaths in 47 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 52.5 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Utah in the same years is 8.7.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Emery County was number 14 of 29 counties of Utah.

Deaths in Emery County fell by 1.9% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (54) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (53).

In the counties of Utah the deaths rose by 9.6% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 97.9% of the fatal crashes in Emery County with a known setting were rural, against 40.2% in Utah.

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 Emery 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.Emery County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	3	1 or 2	1 or 2
2023	3	3	0
2022	6	6	3
2021	5	5	1 or 2
2020	3	3	0
2019	9	7	1 or 2
2018	5	5	1 or 2
2017	4	4	1 or 2
2016	9	7	1 or 2
2015	6	5	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	53	47	11

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 19 (2000)2024: 3

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

Table 2.Emery County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	3	1 or 2
2023	3	3
2022	6	6
2021	5	5
2020	3	3
2019	9	7
2018	5	5
2017	4	4
2016	9	7
2015	6	5
2014	1 or 2	1 or 2
2013	6	5
2012	1 or 2	1 or 2
2011	5	4
2010	5	5
2009	6	6
2008	8	6
2007	7	6
2006	5	5
2005	8	6
2004	12	9
2003	18	14
2002	9	8
2001	4	4
2000	19	14
1999	8	6
1998	10	7
1997	10	9
1996	9	9
1995	8	6
1994	14	13
1993	4	4
1992	8	8
1991	5	5
1990	7	7
1989	10	8
1988	10	8
1987	3	3
1986	11	10
1985	4	4
1984	9	7
1983	4	4
1982	6	4
1981	18	15
1980	6	5
1979	7	6
1978	10	8
1977	8	8
1976	8	6
1975	5	4

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.Emery County beside Utah and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Emery County	Utah	United States
2024	29.6	7.9	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	52.5	8.7	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. Emery County had 10,142 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Emery County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Utah
A driver recorded as drinkingof 47 fatal crashes	11	47 fatal crashes	23.4%	22.7%
A speeding-related driverof 47 fatal crashes	10	47 fatal crashes	21.3%	28.5%
No restraint usedof 47 occupant deaths with restraint use known	24	47 occupant deathswith restraint use known	51.1%	45.6%
Pedestriansof 53 deaths	1 or 2	53 deaths	1.9%	14.1%
Bicyclistsof 53 deaths	0	53 deaths	0.0%	2.5%
Motorcyclistsof 53 deaths	3	53 deaths	5.7%	15.1%
On a rural roadof 47 fatal crashes with the condition reported	46	47 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	97.9%	40.2%
In the darkof 45 fatal crashes with the condition reported	17	45 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	37.8%	40.5%

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.Emery 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	0	5	4	11
Monday	0	1 or 2	5	0	7
Tuesday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	0	4
Wednesday	1 or 2	0	5	1 or 2	7
Thursday	1 or 2	0	3	1 or 2	7
Friday	0	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	3
Saturday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	8
All days	9	5	23	10	47

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.Emery County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Utah
Interstate	22	46.8%	19.0%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	1.2%
Other principal arterial	18	38.3%	39.9%
Minor arterial	0	0.0%	14.9%
Major collector	1 or 2	2.1%	11.9%
Minor collector	3	6.4%	3.3%
Local	3	6.4%	9.7%
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.Emery County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	25
Dark, not lighted	17
Dark, lighted	0
Dawn	0
Dusk	3
Dark, lighting unknown	0
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Emery County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	32
Cloudy	6
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	1 or 2
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	3

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Emery County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Emery	In all of Utah
Interstate 70	Interstate	22	67
US Route 6	US highway	12	67

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 Utah

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Emery County on the county map of Utah

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

Fewer than 106 counties
10 to 14.94 counties
15 to 19.94 counties
20 to 29.93 counties
30 or more11 counties
Count of 1 or 2, no rate shown1 county
Emery County: 52.5

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 Utah

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Emery County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Carbon County	Utah	9	49	24.0
Grand County	Utah	10	67	69.2
Sanpete County	Utah	6	39	13.1
Sevier County	Utah	7	44	20.3
Wayne County	Utah	1 or 2	8	30.4

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Utah have a population nearest to that of Emery 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.
Utah Highway Safety OfficeThe highway safety office of Utah.

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

Cite this page

Fatal Roads. Emery County, Utah: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/ut/emery/. 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 Emery in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 54 deaths in Emery County from 2005 to 2014. It records 53 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Emery in 2024?

The rate of Emery County in 2024 was 29.6 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Utah was 7.9. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 11 of 47 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 Emery?

FARS records 22 fatal crashes on Interstate 70 in the county from 2015 to 2024. FARS records 12 fatal crashes on US Route 6 in the county from 2015 to 2024.