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Fatal crash rate · Minnesota

Fatal crash rate in Morrison County, Minnesota

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

Morrison County, Minnesota2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

20.3fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 7 fatal crashes in Morrison County, Minnesota, where 34,494 people lived. That is 20.3 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 7 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 16.9.

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

Per 100,000
7 fatal crashes ÷ 34,494 residents × 100,000 = 20.3
Five-year
29 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 171,160 resident-years × 100,000 = 16.9
Same year
Minnesota: 431 ÷ 5,797,405 = 7.4 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
20204533,99111.8
20217834,06920.5
20225534,27814.6
20236634,32817.5
20247734,49420.3

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 29 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Morrison County, Minnesota over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate00%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial724%
Minor arterial724%
Major collector621%
Minor collector13%
Local road828%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural2586%
Urban414%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am414%
6 am to 11:59 am931%
Noon to 5:59 pm1034%
6 pm to 11:59 pm621%
Hour unknown00%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight1759%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)1034%
Dark, lighted00%
Dawn or dusk13%
Unknown or not reported13%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear2172%
Cloudy310%
Rain13%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke27%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other13%
Unknown or not reported13%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian13%
A bicyclist or other cyclist27%
A speeding-related vehicle621%
A driver police reported as drinking517%
Most-named roadsCrashes
US-107
SR-253
SR-273
CR-21 30TH ST2
CR-230 BARREL RD1

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.