Marinette County, Wisconsin: fatal crash statistics

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FARS records 7 deaths in 6 fatal crashes in Marinette County in 2024.

FARS records 65 deaths in 63 fatal crashes in the county from 2015 to 2024.

From 2015 to 2024 the rate is 15.8 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, Marinette County was number 34 of 72 counties of Wisconsin.

Deaths in Marinette County fell by 46.7% between the ten years 2005 to 2014 (122) and the ten years 2015 to 2024 (65).

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

From 2015 to 2024, 92.1% of the fatal crashes in Marinette 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 Marinette 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.Marinette County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 2015 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes	Crashes with a driver recorded as drinking
2024	7	6	3
2023	7	7	5
2022	5	5	3
2021	9	9	1 or 2
2020	3	3	1 or 2
2019	7	7	4
2018	11	11	7
2017	5	4	1 or 2
2016	6	6	1 or 2
2015	5	5	0
2015 to 2024	65	63	29

Each year from 1975

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

Tallest column: 19 (2009)2024: 7

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

Table 2.Marinette County: deaths and fatal crashes by year, 1975 to 2024
Year	Deaths	Fatal crashes
2024	7	6
2023	7	7
2022	5	5
2021	9	9
2020	3	3
2019	7	7
2018	11	11
2017	5	4
2016	6	6
2015	5	5
2014	5	5
2013	8	8
2012	13	12
2011	14	14
2010	11	8
2009	19	12
2008	10	10
2007	13	13
2006	16	15
2005	13	13
2004	17	12
2003	12	12
2002	16	13
2001	10	10
2000	17	16
1999	12	10
1998	11	10
1997	12	8
1996	9	8
1995	10	9
1994	11	9
1993	10	10
1992	10	9
1991	8	8
1990	16	13
1989	16	10
1988	11	10
1987	15	13
1986	5	5
1985	14	11
1984	9	8
1983	7	7
1982	10	9
1981	13	10
1980	14	12
1979	12	10
1978	12	10
1977	8	7
1976	13	13
1975	11	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.Marinette County beside Wisconsin and the United States: deaths for each 100,000 residents
Period	Marinette County	Wisconsin	United States
2024	16.5	10.0	11.5
2015 to 2024, in a year	15.8	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. Marinette County had 42,390 residents in 2024.

Factors that NHTSA records

Table 4.Marinette County: counts by recorded factor, 2015 to 2024
Factor	Count	Counted among	Share	Share in Wisconsin
A driver recorded as drinkingof 63 fatal crashes	29	63 fatal crashes	46.0%	33.4%
A speeding-related driverof 63 fatal crashes	27	63 fatal crashes	42.9%	31.0%
No restraint usedof 47 occupant deaths with restraint use known	25	47 occupant deathswith restraint use known	53.2%	49.1%
Pedestriansof 65 deaths	1 or 2	65 deaths	1.5%	9.5%
Bicyclistsof 65 deaths	1 or 2	65 deaths	1.5%	1.7%
Motorcyclistsof 65 deaths	10	65 deaths	15.4%	15.8%
On a rural roadof 63 fatal crashes with the condition reported	58	63 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	92.1%	62.5%
In the darkof 61 fatal crashes with the condition reported	21	61 fatal crasheswith the condition reported	34.4%	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.Marinette 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	4	4	3	12
Monday	1 or 2	0	3	1 or 2	6
Tuesday	0	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	6
Wednesday	0	4	1 or 2	1 or 2	7
Thursday	1 or 2	1 or 2	3	1 or 2	7
Friday	1 or 2	1 or 2	4	1 or 2	9
Saturday	4	1 or 2	5	3	13
All days	10	12	25	13	60

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.Marinette 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	15	23.8%	29.4%
Minor arterial	5	7.9%	22.7%
Major collector	22	34.9%	17.2%
Minor collector	3	4.8%	6.2%
Local	18	28.6%	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.Marinette County: fatal crashes by light condition, 2015 to 2024
Light condition	Fatal crashes
Daylight	38
Dark, not lighted	15
Dark, lighted	4
Dawn	1 or 2
Dusk	1 or 2
Dark, lighting unknown	1 or 2
Other or unknown	1 or 2

Table 8.Marinette County: fatal crashes by weather, 2015 to 2024
Weather	Fatal crashes
Clear	33
Cloudy	21
Rain	3
Snow, sleet or freezing rain	3
Fog, smog or smoke	1 or 2
Crosswinds or blowing sand/snow	0
Other or not reported	1 or 2

Routes in the county

Table 9.Signed routes in Marinette County that have a page: fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024
Route	Type	In Marinette	In all of Wisconsin
State Route 64	State highway	1 or 2	25
US Route 8	US highway	4	58
US Route 41	US highway	6	31
US Route 141	US highway	6	20

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.Marinette 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
Marinette County: 15.8

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 Wisconsin

Table 10.Counties that share a boundary line with Marinette County
County	State	Deaths, 2024	Deaths, 2015 to 2024	For each 100,000 residents in a year
Dickinson County	Michigan	3	34	13.2
Menominee County	Michigan	6	31	13.4
Door County	Wisconsin	4	37	12.8
Florence County	Wisconsin	0	16	35.7
Forest County	Wisconsin	1 or 2	17	18.5
Oconto County	Wisconsin	7	90	23.3

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 Marinette 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. Marinette County, Wisconsin: fatal crash statistics. https://fatalroads.com/county/wi/marinette/. 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 Marinette in the ten years before 2015?

FARS records 122 deaths in Marinette County from 2005 to 2014. It records 65 deaths from 2015 to 2024.

What was the rate of Marinette in 2024?

The rate of Marinette County in 2024 was 16.5 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 Marinette had a driver recorded as drinking?

FARS records a driver as drinking in 29 of 63 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 Marinette?

4 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.