Factor reference table

Motorcycle fatal crashes by state

Every state’s fatal crashes 2020 to 2024, and how many of them the federal record codes as involving a motorcycle. A count and a share, from NHTSA’s FARS fields as the police coded them. Alphabetical, not ranked.

State	Fatal crashes	Involving a motorcycle	Share	Latest year
Alabama	4,438	468	11%	125
Alaska	310	39	13%	10
Arizona	5,558	1,045	19%	217
Arkansas	2,894	438	15%	75
California	19,496	2,935	15%	519
Colorado	3,219	716	22%	170
Connecticut	1,478	328	22%	73
Delaware	628	96	15%	23
District of Columbia	187	35	19%	9
Florida	15,959	3,233	20%	642
Georgia	7,673	983	13%	179
Hawaii	471	140	30%	27
Idaho	1,089	167	15%	44
Illinois	5,671	785	14%	148
Indiana	4,222	695	16%	132
Iowa	1,598	304	19%	63
Kansas	1,793	255	14%	56
Kentucky	3,566	517	14%	114
Louisiana	3,960	429	11%	71
Maine	751	132	18%	36
Maryland	2,733	434	16%	95
Massachusetts	1,806	317	18%	71
Michigan	5,173	879	17%	184
Minnesota	2,033	351	17%	72
Mississippi	3,371	262	8%	55
Missouri	4,594	754	16%	145
Montana	987	158	16%	37
Nebraska	1,052	136	13%	29
Nevada	1,798	391	22%	84
New Hampshire	580	152	26%	34
New Jersey	3,067	470	15%	115
New Mexico	1,996	259	13%	51
New York	5,238	1,022	20%	209
North Carolina	7,453	1,071	14%	211
North Dakota	457	76	17%	17
Ohio	5,802	1,083	19%	218
Oklahoma	3,154	441	14%	101
Oregon	2,590	403	16%	83
Pennsylvania	5,498	1,105	20%	215
Rhode Island	293	59	20%	8
South Carolina	5,019	782	16%	154
South Dakota	646	121	19%	33
Tennessee	5,874	849	14%	184
Texas	19,209	2,717	14%	572
Utah	1,351	227	17%	53
Vermont	316	64	20%	7
Virginia	4,369	584	13%	120
Washington	3,253	566	17%	111
West Virginia	1,229	181	15%	37
Wisconsin	2,749	516	19%	103
Wyoming	557	89	16%	24
United States	189,208	30,259	16%	6,165

“Fatal crashes” is every FARS crash 2020 to 2024; “Latest year” is 2024, NHTSA’s Annual Report File. Shares are of each state’s five-year total; one year is too few crashes in a small state to split. A crash with both a pedestrian and a speeding vehicle counts in both tables.

How this table is counted

What is counted: any vehicle with BODY_TYP 80 to 89 in FARS vehicle.csv (two- and three-wheel motorcycles, mopeds, scooters and unknown motored cycles; ATVs are not counted). Each crash counts once however many people or vehicles match. The count is of fatal crashes, not of the people involved: a crash with two pedestrians is one crash.
Source: NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System, files 2020 to 2024, one row per crash on a public road in which someone died within 30 days. Nothing here is a model or an estimate.
What it cannot say: a share says how often the factor appears in that state’s fatal crashes, not how dangerous the factor is or how often it appears in crashes nobody died in. Police coding practice differs by state, and the drinking flag in particular is a report, not a test.
Not ranked. States are alphabetical. Each name opens the state page, where the same counts sit beside the state’s population, vehicle-miles and rates.

Informational only, not professional advice. Last reviewed: October 2026. Snapshot built 2026-10-30.

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