Fatal crashes · every US county and state
How many fatal crashes happen where you live?
Type a county. You get the fatal crashes the federal record counted there, the rate per 100,000 residents, and the same rate for your state and the whole country, with the arithmetic on the page.
- Counts from NHTSA, the agency that records every fatal crash in the US
- Population printed beside every rate
- No rankings, no lawyers
Harris County, Texas2024 · example
11.0fatal crashes per 100,000 residents
NHTSA counted 551 fatal crashes in Harris County in 2024, where 4,996,331 people lived. 583 people died in them. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 10.7.
- Per 100,000
- 551 ÷ 4,996,331 × 100,000 = 11.0
- Same year
- Texas 3,774 ÷ 31,318,578 = 12.1 · US 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7
The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents, 0 to 40. Source: NHTSA FARS 2024 Annual Report File; Census Vintage 2025. Open the Harris County page.
Pick your state
The yellow post moves to your state’s rate. The state page adds the rate per mile driven and every county.
12.1fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 3,774 fatal crashes in Texas, where 31,318,578 people lived. 4,160 people died in them. Per mile driven, that is 1.2 fatal crashes per 100 million vehicle-miles.
- Per 100,000
- 3,774 ÷ 31,318,578 × 100,000 = 12.1
- United States
- 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 × 100,000 = 10.7
Open the Texas page: every year, every county, the crash factors
- Alabama 17.3
- Alaska 8.6
- Arizona 14.8
- Arkansas 17.7
- California 9.1
- Colorado 10.7
- Connecticut 7.8
- Delaware 11.5
- District of Columbia 6.7
- Florida 12.6
- Georgia 11.7
- Hawaii 6.8
- Idaho 10.9
- Illinois 8.5
- Indiana 11.3
- Iowa 10.0
- Kansas 10.6
- Kentucky 14.5
- Louisiana 15.3
- Maine 11.9
- Maryland 8.8
- Massachusetts 4.9
- Michigan 10.0
- Minnesota 7.4
- Mississippi 23.0
- Missouri 14.1
- Montana 17.0
- Nebraska 11.1
- Nevada 11.6
- New Hampshire 8.5
- New Jersey 6.7
- New Mexico 17.8
- New York 5.2
- North Carolina 13.7
- North Dakota 10.6
- Ohio 9.1
- Oklahoma 14.5
- Oregon 11.5
- Pennsylvania 8.1
- Rhode Island 4.3
- South Carolina 17.3
- South Dakota 14.5
- Tennessee 15.1
- Texas 12.1
- Utah 7.2
- Vermont 8.2
- Virginia 9.8
- Washington 8.5
- West Virginia 13.5
- Wisconsin 8.9
- Wyoming 17.4
Fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, alphabetical. Not ranked: a rate without its count and population is not a comparison.
Why a small county’s number swings
Where few people live, one crash moves the rate a long way. Every small-county page says so beside its number.
Loving County, Texas2024 · example
2,127.7fatal crashes per 100,000 residents
NHTSA counted 1 fatal crash in Loving County in 2024, where 47 people lived.
What this does and doesn’t count
- Fatal crashes only. NHTSA’s file holds crashes on public roads in which someone died within 30 days. Not injuries, not fender-benders, not congestion.
- Where it happened, not where people live. A crash counts for the county it was in. A rural county on an interstate carries the crashes of people passing through.
- No rankings. Every page shows the count, the population and the US rate beside its number, so two places can be compared with both sets of inputs in view.