Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in Louisiana
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Louisiana, 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.
Louisiana2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
15.3fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 705 fatal crashes in Louisiana, where 4,614,878 people lived. That is 15.3 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 752 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 17.1. Per mile driven, Louisiana had 1.3 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 Louisiana; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 705 fatal crashes ÷ 4,614,878 residents × 100,000 = 15.3
- Five-year
- 3,960 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 23,095,287 resident-years × 100,000 = 17.1
- Per 100M miles
- 705 fatal crashes ÷ 55,109 million vehicle-miles (2024) × 100 = 1.3
- 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 | 762 | 828 | 4,652,145 | 16.4 | 48,374 | 1.6 |
| 2021 | 886 | 971 | 4,628,595 | 19.1 | 54,728 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 852 | 906 | 4,600,892 | 18.5 | 56,514 | 1.5 |
| 2023 | 755 | 811 | 4,598,777 | 16.4 | 55,560 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 705 | 752 | 4,614,878 | 15.3 | 55,109 | 1.3 |
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. 1 crash 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 3,960 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Louisiana over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 591 | 15% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 47 | 1% |
| Other principal arterial | 934 | 24% |
| Minor arterial | 839 | 21% |
| Major collector | 630 | 16% |
| Minor collector | 204 | 5% |
| Local road | 673 | 17% |
| Unknown or not reported | 42 | 1% |
| Rural | 1,727 | 44% |
| Urban | 2,192 | 55% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 866 | 22% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 684 | 17% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 964 | 24% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 1,423 | 36% |
| Hour unknown | 23 | 1% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 1,561 | 39% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 1,439 | 36% |
| Dark, lighted | 751 | 19% |
| Dawn or dusk | 152 | 4% |
| Unknown or not reported | 57 | 1% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 3,143 | 79% |
| Cloudy | 441 | 11% |
| Rain | 257 | 6% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 3 | 0% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 48 | 1% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 2 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 66 | 2% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 797 | 20% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 193 | 5% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 989 | 25% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 917 | 23% |
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 Louisiana
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.
- Acadia Parish 9 · 15.8
- Allen Parish 5 · 22.0
- Ascension Parish 21 · 15.7
- Assumption Parish 4 · 20.0
- Avoyelles Parish 12 · 31.3
- Beauregard Parish 7 · 19.1
- Bienville Parish 8 · 64.7
- Bossier Parish 19 · 14.5
- Caddo Parish 38 · 16.9
- Calcasieu Parish 28 · 13.5
- Caldwell Parish 0 · 0.0
- Cameron Parish 1 · 21.0
- Catahoula Parish 3 · 35.9
- Claiborne Parish 4 · 29.5
- Concordia Parish 4 · 22.1
- De Soto Parish 0 · 0.0
- East Baton Rouge Parish 61 · 13.4
- East Carroll Parish 1 · 14.5
- East Feliciana Parish 4 · 21.1
- Evangeline Parish 6 · 18.7
- Franklin Parish 2 · 10.4
- Grant Parish 6 · 27.1
- Iberia Parish 12 · 17.8
- Iberville Parish 10 · 33.7
- Jackson Parish 4 · 25.4
- Jefferson Davis Parish 8 · 25.4
- Jefferson Parish 23 · 5.3
- Lafayette Parish 31 · 12.2
- Lafourche Parish 9 · 9.4
- LaSalle Parish 2 · 13.2
- Lincoln Parish 10 · 20.7
- Livingston Parish 26 · 17.0
- Madison Parish 4 · 44.1
- Morehouse Parish 7 · 29.3
- Natchitoches Parish 7 · 19.3
- Orleans Parish 58 · 16.0
- Ouachita Parish 27 · 17.0
- Plaquemines Parish 5 · 22.3
- Pointe Coupee Parish 2 · 10.1
- Rapides Parish 25 · 19.9
- Red River Parish 3 · 41.4
- Richland Parish 7 · 35.6
- Sabine Parish 8 · 36.7
- St. Bernard Parish 6 · 13.2
- St. Charles Parish 7 · 13.8
- St. Helena Parish 4 · 37.0
- St. James Parish 5 · 26.2
- St. John the Baptist Parish 8 · 20.0
- St. Landry Parish 15 · 18.5
- St. Martin Parish 7 · 13.6
- St. Mary Parish 6 · 12.8
- St. Tammany Parish 30 · 10.8
- Tangipahoa Parish 28 · 20.0
- Tensas Parish 0 · 0.0
- Terrebonne Parish 15 · 14.4
- Union Parish 4 · 19.3
- Vermilion Parish 4 · 6.9
- Vernon Parish 5 · 10.9
- Washington Parish 8 · 17.7
- Webster Parish 4 · 11.4
- West Baton Rouge Parish 9 · 31.5
- West Carroll Parish 1 · 10.8
- West Feliciana Parish 1 · 6.6
- Winn Parish 6 · 40.6
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.