Fatal-crash rate by state, 2023

Deaths per 100 million vehicle-miles travelled. NHTSA FARS fatalities over FHWA Highway Statistics VM-2 exposure. National: 1.26 per 100M VMT (41,025 deaths over 3.25 trillion miles, 51 states).

This is a fatal-crash measure, not a “dangerous roads” measure. FARS records fatal crashes only. Fatal crashes concentrate on high-speed rural roads; injury crashes concentrate on urban arterials, so this map and a high-injury network disagree almost everywhere. The interval in each popup is a Poisson 95% interval — a rate built on a few hundred deaths is not comparable to one built on thousands.

#	State	Rate	95% interval	Deaths	VMT (M)
1	Mississippi	1.79	1.66–1.92	733	40,944
2	Arizona	1.74	1.64–1.83	1,308	75,297
3	South Carolina	1.72	1.62–1.83	1,047	60,794
4	Kentucky	1.66	1.55–1.78	814	48,993
5	West Virginia	1.63	1.44–1.84	260	15,962
6	Oregon	1.59	1.47–1.73	587	36,816
7	Tennessee	1.59	1.50–1.67	1,323	83,405
8	New Mexico	1.56	1.42–1.72	440	28,169
9	Oklahoma	1.55	1.44–1.67	711	45,760
10	Arkansas	1.52	1.40–1.65	596	39,101
11	Montana	1.52	1.32–1.74	208	13,700
12	Wyoming	1.51	1.28–1.78	144	9,519
13	Nevada	1.46	1.32–1.61	406	27,777
14	Louisiana	1.46	1.36–1.56	811	55,560
15	Texas	1.43	1.39–1.47	4,294	300,338
16	Florida	1.41	1.36–1.46	3,375	239,188
17	Idaho	1.39	1.23–1.57	275	19,718
18	Delaware	1.39	1.16–1.64	135	9,718
19	South Dakota	1.35	1.14–1.60	140	10,345
20	Washington	1.35	1.26–1.45	809	59,804
21	Alabama	1.35	1.26–1.43	974	72,289
22	Colorado	1.32	1.22–1.42	720	54,654
23	California	1.32	1.28–1.36	4,169	316,612
24	North Carolina	1.29	1.23–1.36	1,577	122,258
25	Georgia	1.27	1.21–1.34	1,610	126,339
26	District of Columbia	1.26	0.92–1.70	44	3,481
27	Missouri	1.23	1.15–1.30	991	80,825
28	Kansas	1.22	1.10–1.34	387	31,828
29	Pennsylvania	1.21	1.14–1.28	1,211	100,126
30	Illinois	1.21	1.14–1.28	1,241	102,871
31	Iowa	1.14	1.03–1.26	379	33,254
32	Michigan	1.12	1.05–1.18	1,096	98,289
33	Ohio	1.10	1.04–1.16	1,242	113,224
34	Alaska	1.09	0.83–1.39	61	5,617
35	Maryland	1.08	1.00–1.17	621	57,356
36	North Dakota	1.07	0.88–1.30	106	9,896
37	Nebraska	1.07	0.93–1.22	227	21,275
38	Indiana	1.06	0.99–1.13	904	85,209
39	Virginia	1.04	0.98–1.11	914	87,730
40	Connecticut	1.01	0.90–1.13	308	30,503
41	Vermont	0.96	0.75–1.22	69	7,172
42	New Hampshire	0.94	0.78–1.12	127	13,515
43	Rhode Island	0.94	0.73–1.18	71	7,564
44	New York	0.93	0.88–0.99	1,117	120,067
45	Maine	0.91	0.76–1.07	135	14,888
46	Hawaii	0.89	0.72–1.09	93	10,435
47	Wisconsin	0.87	0.80–0.94	586	67,248
48	Utah	0.81	0.72–0.91	280	34,584
49	New Jersey	0.78	0.71–0.84	605	78,007
50	Minnesota	0.69	0.63–0.76	402	58,046
51	Massachusetts	0.56	0.50–0.63	342	60,748

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