Fatal crash rate in Nevada County, California
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Nevada County, California, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.
Nevada County, California2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
7.8fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 8 fatal crashes in Nevada County, California, where 102,146 people lived. That is 7.8 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 8 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 14.2.
The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Nevada County; the white posts are California and the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 8 fatal crashes ÷ 102,146 residents × 100,000 = 7.8
- Five-year
- 73 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 512,359 resident-years × 100,000 = 14.2
- Same year
- California: 3,583 ÷ 39,364,774 = 9.1 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7
Every year, 2020 to 2024
| Year | Fatal crashes | Deaths | Population | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 14 | 14 | 102,280 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 21 | 25 | 103,496 | 20.3 |
| 2022 | 17 | 18 | 102,377 | 16.6 |
| 2023 | 13 | 14 | 102,060 | 12.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | 8 | 102,146 | 7.8 |
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 73 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Nevada County, California over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 11 | 15% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 1 | 1% |
| Other principal arterial | 29 | 40% |
| Minor arterial | 14 | 19% |
| Major collector | 13 | 18% |
| Minor collector | 2 | 3% |
| Local road | 3 | 4% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Rural | 43 | 59% |
| Urban | 30 | 41% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 16 | 22% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 9 | 12% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 23 | 32% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 20 | 27% |
| Hour unknown | 5 | 7% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 33 | 45% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 28 | 38% |
| Dark, lighted | 7 | 10% |
| Dawn or dusk | 5 | 7% |
| Unknown or not reported | 0 | 0% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 64 | 88% |
| Cloudy | 7 | 10% |
| Rain | 1 | 1% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 0 | 0% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 0 | 0% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 1 | 1% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 5 | 7% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 0 | 0% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 22 | 30% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 22 | 30% |
| Most-named roads | Crashes |
|---|---|
| SR-49 | 19 |
| SR-20 | 13 |
| I-80 | 10 |
| SR-49 GOLDEN CHAIN HWY | 3 |
| TYLER FOOTE RD | 3 |
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 theFATALSfield. Counties are the FARSSTATEandCOUNTYcodes 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.