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Fatal crash rate · Oklahoma

Fatal crash rate in Garfield County, Oklahoma

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

Garfield County, Oklahoma2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA

16.1fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024

In 2024, NHTSA recorded 10 fatal crashes in Garfield County, Oklahoma, where 62,044 people lived. That is 16.1 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 10 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 11.6.

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

Per 100,000
10 fatal crashes ÷ 62,044 residents × 100,000 = 16.1
Five-year
36 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 310,759 resident-years × 100,000 = 11.6
Same year
Oklahoma: 594 ÷ 4,097,758 = 14.5 · United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7

Every year, 2020 to 2024

YearFatal crashesDeathsPopulationPer 100,000
20206662,6999.6
20216761,9869.7
20226761,9709.7
20238862,06012.9
2024101062,04416.1

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 36 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Garfield County, Oklahoma over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.

Road typeCrashesShare
Interstate00%
Other freeway or expressway00%
Other principal arterial1747%
Minor arterial38%
Major collector822%
Minor collector00%
Local road822%
Unknown or not reported00%
Rural2261%
Urban1439%
Time of dayCrashesShare
Midnight to 5:59 am719%
6 am to 11:59 am925%
Noon to 5:59 pm1439%
6 pm to 11:59 pm617%
Hour unknown00%
LightCrashesShare
Daylight2467%
Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown)925%
Dark, lighted38%
Dawn or dusk00%
Unknown or not reported00%
WeatherCrashesShare
Clear2672%
Cloudy719%
Rain13%
Snow, sleet or freezing rain00%
Fog, smog or smoke13%
Severe wind, blowing sand or other00%
Unknown or not reported13%
InvolvingCrashesShare
A pedestrian38%
A bicyclist or other cyclist00%
A speeding-related vehicle719%
A driver police reported as drinking38%
Most-named roadsCrashes
SR-1325
US-604
US-643
US-812
US-4122

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.