Fatal crash rate in Leon County, Florida

Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Leon County, Florida, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.

Leon County, Florida2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

11.7fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 35 fatal crashes in Leon County, Florida, where 298,712 people lived. That is 11.7 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 38 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 12.0.

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Florida 12.6

US 10.7

Leon County 11.7

The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Leon County; the white posts are Florida and the United States.

Per 100,000: 35 fatal crashes ÷ 298,712 residents × 100,000 = 11.7
Five-year: 178 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 1,484,927 resident-years × 100,000 = 12.0
Same year: Florida: 2,931 ÷ 23,265,838 = 12.6 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

US 10.7

11.2

12.8

12.4

11.7

20202021202220232024

Bars: this place, fatal crashes per 100,000 residents. Dashed line: the United States in the latest year. Source: NHTSA FARS and Census population estimates, each year.

Year	Fatal crashes	Deaths	Population	Per 100,000
2020	33	35	293,925	11.2
2021	38	45	296,045	12.8
2022	37	38	297,935	12.4
2023	35	38	298,310	11.7
2024	35	38	298,712	11.7

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 178 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Leon County, Florida over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road type	Crashes	Share
Interstate	11	6%
Other freeway or expressway	0	0%
Other principal arterial	71	40%
Minor arterial	50	28%
Major collector	22	12%
Minor collector	8	4%
Local road	15	8%
Unknown or not reported	1	1%
Rural	30	17%
Urban	147	83%

Time of day	Crashes	Share
Midnight to 5:59 am	39	22%
6 am to 11:59 am	37	21%
Noon to 5:59 pm	39	22%
6 pm to 11:59 pm	63	35%
Hour unknown	0	0%

Light	Crashes	Share
Daylight	67	38%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)	46	26%
Dark, lighted	55	31%
Dawn or dusk	9	5%
Unknown or not reported	1	1%

Weather	Crashes	Share
Clear	134	75%
Cloudy	29	16%
Rain	14	8%
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	52	29%
A bicyclist or other cyclist	8	4%
A speeding-related vehicle	26	15%
A driver police reported as drinking	40	22%

Most-named roads	Crashes
US-90	26
US-27	19
I-10	11
US-319	10
SR-263	8

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.