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Fatal crash rate · Alaska

Fatal crash rate in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska

Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.

Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

13.8fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 1 fatal crash in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, where 7,237 people lived. That is 13.8 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 1 person died in those crashes. Over 2021 to 2024 the average was 32.8.

The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Southeast Fairbanks Census Area; the white posts are Alaska and the United States. The shaded band is how far one crash moves Southeast Fairbanks Census Area’s post.

Small population. Southeast Fairbanks Census Area has 7,237 residents, so one crash moves the rate by 13.8 points and a single bad year can double it. Read the five-year average and the count, not the one-year rate alone.
Per 100,000
1 fatal crashes ÷ 7,237 residents × 100,000 = 13.8
Five-year
7 crashes (2021 to 2024) ÷ 21,373 resident-years × 100,000 = 32.8
Same year
Alaska: 63 ÷ 736,537 = 8.6 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
2020006,8250.0
2021127,01514.3
2022007,0380.0
2023557,12170.2
2024117,23713.8

2024 is NHTSA’s Annual Report File and will be revised when the final file replaces it. Populations are July 1 estimates, Census Vintage 2025.

What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024

Every figure is a count of the 7 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate457%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial00%
Minor arterial114%
Major collector00%
Minor collector114%
Local road114%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural7100%
Urban00%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am114%
6 am to 11:59 am114%
Noon to 5:59 pm229%
6 pm to 11:59 pm229%
Hour unknown114%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight343%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)343%
Dark, lighted00%
Dawn or dusk114%
Unknown or not reported00%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear7100%
Cloudy00%
Rain00%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke00%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported00%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian114%
A bicyclist or other cyclist00%
A speeding-related vehicle571%
A driver police reported as drinking343%
Most-named roadsCrashes
SOURDOUGH LN1
TOK CUT OFF1
CLEARWATER ROAD1
GLENN HWY TOK CUTOFF1
ALASKA HWY1

Road type is FARS FUNC_SYS; speeding is any vehicle coded SPEEDREL 2 to 5; drinking is any driver coded DRINKING = 1 (police-reported, not a blood-alcohol test). Road names are the trafficway strings as the police coded them, counted as written, so the same road can appear under two spellings.

How this is counted

  • Fatal crashes are rows in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) file FARS2024NationalCSV.zip, accident.csv, one row per crash on a public road in which someone died within 30 days. Deaths are the FATALS field. Counties are the FARS STATE and COUNTY codes joined to Census FIPS codes.
  • Population is the Census Bureau’s July 1 estimate for the same year, county totals, Vintage 2025. Rate per 100,000 = crashes ÷ population × 100,000.
  • The five-year average is total crashes over the years with both inputs ÷ total population over those years × 100,000, the rolling form in 23 CFR 490.207.
  • What it cannot say. FARS has no injury-only or property-damage crashes, no congestion, and nothing about any one driver, trip or road’s risk. A crash is counted where it happened, not where the people lived. Rates are not ranked here; comparing two places means comparing both sets of inputs.

Informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026. Data snapshot built 2026-10-28.