Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in Arizona
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Arizona, 2020 to 2024, divided by the people who live there and the miles driven there. Fatal crashes only: not injuries, not all crashes, not traffic in general.
Arizona2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
14.8fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 1,118 fatal crashes in Arizona, where 7,556,424 people lived. That is 14.8 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 1,229 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 15.1. Per mile driven, Arizona had 1.6 fatal crashes per 100 million vehicle-miles in 2024.
The road is a scale of fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024, 0 to 40. The yellow post is Arizona; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 1,118 fatal crashes ÷ 7,556,424 residents × 100,000 = 14.8
- Five-year
- 5,558 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 36,839,231 resident-years × 100,000 = 15.1
- Per 100M miles
- 1,118 fatal crashes ÷ 70,451 million vehicle-miles (2024) × 100 = 1.6
- Same year
- United States: 36,297 ÷ 340,003,797 = 10.7
Every year, 2020 to 2024
| Year | Fatal crashes | Deaths | Population | Per 100,000 | Vehicle-miles (millions) | Per 100M miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 966 | 1,053 | 7,186,647 | 13.4 | 65,758 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 1,076 | 1,192 | 7,274,022 | 14.8 | 73,760 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 1,200 | 1,320 | 7,370,065 | 16.3 | 76,159 | 1.6 |
| 2023 | 1,198 | 1,308 | 7,452,073 | 16.1 | 75,297 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 1,118 | 1,229 | 7,556,424 | 14.8 | 70,451 | 1.6 |
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. 10 crashes over 2020 to 2024 were coded to an unknown or unlisted county and count toward the state only.
What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024
Every figure is a count of the 5,558 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Arizona over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 510 | 9% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 233 | 4% |
| Other principal arterial | 1,572 | 28% |
| Minor arterial | 1,981 | 36% |
| Major collector | 684 | 12% |
| Minor collector | 181 | 3% |
| Local road | 121 | 2% |
| Unknown or not reported | 276 | 5% |
| Rural | 1,562 | 28% |
| Urban | 3,797 | 68% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 1,003 | 18% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 998 | 18% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 1,474 | 27% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 1,944 | 35% |
| Hour unknown | 139 | 3% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 2,343 | 42% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 1,073 | 19% |
| Dark, lighted | 1,623 | 29% |
| Dawn or dusk | 246 | 4% |
| Unknown or not reported | 273 | 5% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 4,433 | 80% |
| Cloudy | 405 | 7% |
| Rain | 118 | 2% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 14 | 0% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 4 | 0% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 5 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 579 | 10% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 1,286 | 23% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 215 | 4% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 1,837 | 33% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 799 | 14% |
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.
Counties in Arizona
Alphabetical, with each county’s 2024 fatal crashes and rate per 100,000. The site does not rank them: a small county’s rate swings on one crash.
- Apache County 27 · 41.7
- Cochise County 25 · 20.0
- Coconino County 52 · 35.9
- Gila County 9 · 16.6
- Graham County 11 · 27.3
- Greenlee County 1 · 10.7
- La Paz County 20 · 120.0
- Maricopa County 560 · 12.0
- Mohave County 45 · 19.9
- Navajo County 30 · 27.4
- Pima County 168 · 15.7
- Pinal County 82 · 15.9
- Santa Cruz County 7 · 14.1
- Yavapai County 56 · 22.3
- Yuma County 22 · 9.9
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.
- Vehicle-miles are FHWA Highway Statistics table VM-2, total annual travel by state. Rate per 100 million vehicle-miles = crashes ÷ miles × 100,000,000, the form the federal safety rule uses (23 CFR 490.207). FHWA publishes no county vehicle-miles, so county pages have no per-mile rate.
- 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.