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Edition: FARS 2024, annual fileNHTSA released it on Release dates

Edition of November 2026

Made from the update of 2 Nov 2026. The data run through 31 Dec 2024. The edition before is October 2026.

National figures

Table 1.National figures in the edition of November 2026 and the edition of October 2026
FigureThis editionEdition beforeChange
Deaths in fatal crashes, United States, 202439,25439,254no change
Fatal crashes, United States, 202436,29736,297no change
Deaths for each 100,000 residents, 202411.511.5no change
Deaths for each 100 million vehicle-miles, 20241.191.19no change
Deaths in fatal crashes, 2015 to 2024389,190389,190no change
Deaths for each 100,000 residents in a year, 2015 to 202411.811.8no change

Search engines list 1,167 pages of states, state years, counties and routes in this edition.

Updates in this month

The log of changes has no entry dated in November 2026. Changes in the FARS data.

Fatal crash deaths for each 100,000 residents, by state, 2024

In 2024, the rate of deaths for each 100,000 residents was largest in Mississippi (25.5) and smallest in Rhode Island (4.7).

Table 2.The first 10 rows of the table in the edition of November 2026
RowNameFigureRow in the edition before
1Mississippi25.51
2Arkansas19.52
3New Mexico19.23
4South Carolina18.94
5Alabama18.65
6Wyoming18.26
7Montana18.17
8Tennessee16.58
9Arizona16.39
10Louisiana16.310

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Fatal crash deaths for each 100 million vehicle-miles, by state, 2024

In 2024, the rate of deaths for each 100 million vehicle-miles was largest in Mississippi (1.81) and smallest in Massachusetts (0.59).

Table 3.The first 10 rows of the table in the edition of November 2026
RowNameFigureRow in the edition before
1Mississippi1.811
2Arizona1.742
3South Carolina1.673
4Arkansas1.534
5Tennessee1.525
6Montana1.496
7West Virginia1.497
8Nevada1.478
9Kentucky1.449
10Oregon1.4410

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Change in fatal crash deaths by state, 2023 to 2024

Deaths in fatal crashes rose in 18 of 51 areas from 2023 to 2024.

Table 4.The first 10 rows of the table in the edition of November 2026
RowNameFigureRow in the edition before
1Maine+31.1%1
2Minnesota+18.7%2
3Alaska+14.8%3
4New Jersey+10.7%4
5Nebraska+10.6%5
6Hawaii+9.7%6
7District of Columbia+6.8%7
8Massachusetts+6.1%8
9New Hampshire+4.7%9
10South Dakota+4.3%10

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The 50 counties with the most fatal crash deaths, 2015 to 2024

The county with the most deaths in fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024 was Los Angeles County, California, with 7,783.

Table 5.The first 10 rows of the table in the edition of November 2026
RowNameFigureRow in the edition before
1Los Angeles County, CA7,7831
2Maricopa County, AZ5,3302
3Harris County, TX4,8513
4San Bernardino County, CA3,5094
5Cook County, IL3,3255
6Dallas County, TX3,1266
7Miami-Dade County, FL3,0867
8Riverside County, CA3,0658
9San Diego County, CA2,7359
10Broward County, FL2,44410

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County rates of fatal crash deaths, 2015 to 2024

422 counties had 200 deaths or more in fatal crashes from 2015 to 2024.

Table 6.The first 10 rows of the table in the edition of November 2026
RowNameFigureRow in the edition before
1Colleton County, SC56.21
2Apache County, AZ46.52
3Orangeburg County, SC45.33
4Robeson County, NC42.54
5Gila County, AZ40.85
6McKinley County, NM39.06
7Columbus County, NC38.47
8Navajo County, AZ37.78
9Putnam County, FL36.79
10Coconino County, AZ36.410

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How an edition is made

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