Grant County, Wisconsin: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 6 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Grant County in 2024.

FARS records 73 deaths in 67 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 14.1 deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year.

The rate of Wisconsin in the same years is 10.2.

By deaths from 2015 to 2024, Grant County was number 28 of 72 counties of Wisconsin.

Deaths in Grant County rose by 2.8% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (71) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (73).

In the counties of Wisconsin the deaths fell by 5.1% between the same years.

From 2015 to 2024, 95.5% of the fatal crashes in Grant County with a known setting were rural, against 62.5% in Wisconsin.

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 Grant 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.Grant County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	6	6	1 or 2
2023	6	6	4
2022	6	6	1 or 2
2021	9	8	3
2020	4	4	1 or 2
2019	11	10	6
2018	5	4	1 or 2
2017	8	8	1 or 2
2016	11	8	3
2015	7	7	1 or 2
2015 to 2024	73	67	24

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 17 (1984)2024: 6

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

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

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.Grant County beside Wisconsin and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Grant County	Wisconsin	United States
2024	11.4	10.0	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	14.1	10.2	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. Grant County had 52,404 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Grant County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Wisconsin
A driver recorded as drinkingof 67 fatal crashes	24	67 fatal crashes	35.8%	33.4%
A speeding-related driverof 67 fatal crashes	17	67 fatal crashes	25.4%	31.0%
No restraint usedof 47 occupant deaths with restraint use known	25	47 occupant deathswith restraint use known	53.2%	49.1%
Pedestriansof 73 deaths	1 or 2	73 deaths	1.4%	9.5%
Bicyclistsof 73 deaths	1 or 2	73 deaths	1.4%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 73 deaths	12	73 deaths	16.4%	15.8%
On a rural roadof 67 fatal crashes with the condition reported	64	67 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	95.5%	62.5%
In the darkof 66 fatal crashes with the condition reported	29	66 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	43.9%	41.7%

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.Grant 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	1 or 2	3	5	14
Monday	0	0	3	1 or 2	4
Tuesday	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	6
Wednesday	0	3	1 or 2	1 or 2	5
Thursday	1 or 2	4	4	1 or 2	11
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	10
Saturday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	6	13
All days	12	14	18	19	63

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.Grant County: fatal crashes by road function class, 2015 to 2024
Road function class	Fatal crashes	Share	Share in Wisconsin
Interstate	0	0.0%	7.6%
Other freeways and expressways	0	0.0%	2.3%
Other principal arterial	26	38.8%	29.4%
Minor arterial	15	22.4%	22.7%
Major collector	14	20.9%	17.2%
Minor collector	1 or 2	3.0%	6.2%
Local	10	14.9%	14.6%
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.Grant County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	35
Dark, not lighted	28
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.Grant County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	45
Cloudy	15
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	0
Fog, smog or smoke	3
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Grant County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Grant	In all of Wisconsin
State Route 35	State highway	3	84
State Route 81	State highway	3	26
US Route 18	US highway	6	43
US Route 51	US highway	1 or 2	73
US Route 151	US highway	4	70

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 Wisconsin

Adjacent counties

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

Figure 3.Grant County on the county map of Wisconsin

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

Fewer than 1018 counties
10 to 14.922 counties
15 to 19.916 counties
20 to 29.914 counties
30 or more2 counties
Grant County: 14.1

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 Wisconsin

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Grant County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Clayton County	Iowa	1 or 2	32	18.5
Dubuque County	Iowa	11	66	6.7
Jo Daviess County	Illinois	0	45	20.7
Crawford County	Wisconsin	5	30	18.6
Iowa County	Wisconsin	1 or 2	40	16.8
Lafayette County	Wisconsin	1 or 2	28	16.6
Richland County	Wisconsin	3	25	14.4

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

Counties of similar population

These counties of Wisconsin have a population nearest to that of Grant 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. Grant County, Wisconsin: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/wi/grant/. 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 Grant in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 71 deaths in Grant County from 2005 to 2014. It records 73 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Grant in 2024?

The rate of Grant County in 2024 was 11.4 deaths for each 100,000 residents. The rate of Wisconsin was 10.0. The rate of the United States was 11.5.

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

FARS records a driver as drinking in 24 of 67 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 Grant?

5 signed routes in the county have a page. FARS records 17 fatal crashes on them in the county from 2015 to 2024. The table of routes on this page gives the count for each route.