Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in Michigan
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Michigan, 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.
Michigan2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
10.0fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 1,011 fatal crashes in Michigan, where 10,099,962 people lived. That is 10.0 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 1,098 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 10.3. Per mile driven, Michigan had 1.0 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 Michigan; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 1,011 fatal crashes ÷ 10,099,962 residents × 100,000 = 10.0
- Five-year
- 5,173 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 50,320,648 resident-years × 100,000 = 10.3
- Per 100M miles
- 1,011 fatal crashes ÷ 99,661 million vehicle-miles (2024) × 100 = 1.0
- 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 | 1,013 | 1,086 | 10,072,294 | 10.1 | 86,547 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 1,073 | 1,137 | 10,042,362 | 10.7 | 96,744 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 1,054 | 1,124 | 10,043,906 | 10.5 | 95,901 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 1,022 | 1,096 | 10,062,124 | 10.2 | 98,289 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,011 | 1,098 | 10,099,962 | 10.0 | 99,661 | 1.0 |
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 5,173 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Michigan over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 459 | 9% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 209 | 4% |
| Other principal arterial | 1,447 | 28% |
| Minor arterial | 1,352 | 26% |
| Major collector | 904 | 17% |
| Minor collector | 81 | 2% |
| Local road | 678 | 13% |
| Unknown or not reported | 43 | 1% |
| Rural | 1,975 | 38% |
| Urban | 3,162 | 61% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 993 | 19% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 918 | 18% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 1,530 | 30% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 1,726 | 33% |
| Hour unknown | 6 | 0% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 2,526 | 49% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 1,332 | 26% |
| Dark, lighted | 1,049 | 20% |
| Dawn or dusk | 234 | 5% |
| Unknown or not reported | 32 | 1% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 3,648 | 71% |
| Cloudy | 885 | 17% |
| Rain | 360 | 7% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 196 | 4% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 42 | 1% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 3 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 39 | 1% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 835 | 16% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 155 | 3% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 1,362 | 26% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 1,293 | 25% |
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 Michigan
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.
- Alcona County 5 · 47.4
- Alger County 0 · 0.0
- Allegan County 18 · 14.7
- Alpena County 3 · 10.4
- Antrim County 4 · 16.4
- Arenac County 4 · 26.6
- Baraga County 0 · 0.0
- Barry County 10 · 15.6
- Bay County 12 · 11.7
- Benzie County 7 · 37.9
- Berrien County 17 · 11.2
- Branch County 6 · 13.0
- Calhoun County 20 · 15.0
- Cass County 8 · 15.5
- Charlevoix County 7 · 26.8
- Cheboygan County 0 · 0.0
- Chippewa County 3 · 8.3
- Clare County 2 · 6.4
- Clinton County 10 · 12.5
- Crawford County 1 · 7.3
- Delta County 5 · 13.6
- Dickinson County 3 · 11.6
- Eaton County 15 · 13.7
- Emmet County 3 · 8.8
- Genesee County 52 · 13.0
- Gladwin County 2 · 7.7
- Gogebic County 1 · 7.0
- Grand Traverse County 10 · 10.4
- Gratiot County 9 · 21.8
- Hillsdale County 5 · 10.9
- Houghton County 2 · 5.3
- Huron County 2 · 6.5
- Ingham County 16 · 5.6
- Ionia County 7 · 10.6
- Iosco County 3 · 11.8
- Iron County 4 · 34.0
- Isabella County 13 · 20.0
- Jackson County 22 · 13.8
- Kalamazoo County 25 · 9.5
- Kalkaska County 5 · 26.8
- Kent County 61 · 9.1
- Keweenaw County 0 · 0.0
- Lake County 2 · 15.4
- Lapeer County 14 · 15.7
- Leelanau County 2 · 8.8
- Lenawee County 19 · 19.4
- Livingston County 9 · 4.6
- Luce County 0 · 0.0
- Mackinac County 4 · 36.0
- Macomb County 68 · 7.7
- Manistee County 5 · 19.6
- Marquette County 6 · 8.8
- Mason County 4 · 13.8
- Mecosta County 7 · 16.7
- Menominee County 6 · 25.9
- Midland County 8 · 9.6
- Missaukee County 0 · 0.0
- Monroe County 18 · 11.5
- Montcalm County 14 · 20.3
- Montmorency County 1 · 10.2
- Muskegon County 19 · 10.7
- Newaygo County 13 · 25.3
- Oakland County 61 · 4.8
- Oceana County 2 · 7.4
- Ogemaw County 5 · 23.8
- Ontonagon County 1 · 17.0
- Osceola County 1 · 4.2
- Oscoda County 2 · 23.2
- Otsego County 3 · 11.5
- Ottawa County 16 · 5.2
- Presque Isle County 0 · 0.0
- Roscommon County 8 · 33.4
- Saginaw County 27 · 14.4
- Sanilac County 4 · 9.9
- Schoolcraft County 2 · 24.5
- Shiawassee County 12 · 17.7
- St. Clair County 17 · 10.6
- St. Joseph County 9 · 14.7
- Tuscola County 6 · 11.4
- Van Buren County 11 · 14.5
- Washtenaw County 32 · 8.7
- Wayne County 166 · 9.4
- Wexford County 5 · 14.6
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.