Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in Missouri
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Missouri, 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.
Missouri2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
14.1fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 882 fatal crashes in Missouri, where 6,243,544 people lived. That is 14.1 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 955 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 14.8. Per mile driven, Missouri had 1.1 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 Missouri; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 882 fatal crashes ÷ 6,243,544 residents × 100,000 = 14.1
- Five-year
- 4,594 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 30,956,410 resident-years × 100,000 = 14.8
- Per 100M miles
- 882 fatal crashes ÷ 81,807 million vehicle-miles (2024) × 100 = 1.1
- 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 | 914 | 987 | 6,155,074 | 14.8 | 72,797 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 931 | 1,016 | 6,172,551 | 15.1 | 79,791 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 962 | 1,057 | 6,179,285 | 15.6 | 79,431 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 905 | 991 | 6,205,956 | 14.6 | 80,825 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 882 | 955 | 6,243,544 | 14.1 | 81,807 | 1.1 |
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 4,594 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Missouri over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 682 | 15% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 327 | 7% |
| Other principal arterial | 1,058 | 23% |
| Minor arterial | 977 | 21% |
| Major collector | 788 | 17% |
| Minor collector | 125 | 3% |
| Local road | 441 | 10% |
| Unknown or not reported | 196 | 4% |
| Rural | 2,276 | 50% |
| Urban | 2,274 | 49% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 802 | 17% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 812 | 18% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 1,446 | 31% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 1,493 | 32% |
| Hour unknown | 41 | 1% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 2,442 | 53% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 1,267 | 28% |
| Dark, lighted | 825 | 18% |
| Dawn or dusk | 22 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 38 | 1% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 3,216 | 70% |
| Cloudy | 910 | 20% |
| Rain | 292 | 6% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 47 | 1% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 72 | 2% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 2 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 55 | 1% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 640 | 14% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 54 | 1% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 1,693 | 37% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 804 | 18% |
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 Missouri
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.
- Adair County 3 · 11.7
- Andrew County 5 · 27.6
- Atchison County 1 · 19.4
- Audrain County 2 · 8.2
- Barry County 4 · 11.2
- Barton County 3 · 25.5
- Bates County 7 · 42.6
- Benton County 7 · 34.1
- Bollinger County 7 · 66.2
- Boone County 19 · 10.0
- Buchanan County 8 · 9.6
- Butler County 11 · 26.3
- Caldwell County 2 · 22.3
- Callaway County 6 · 13.3
- Camden County 12 · 27.2
- Cape Girardeau County 9 · 10.8
- Carroll County 1 · 11.9
- Carter County 0 · 0.0
- Cass County 10 · 8.8
- Cedar County 1 · 6.7
- Chariton County 1 · 13.5
- Christian County 5 · 5.2
- Clark County 3 · 45.6
- Clay County 24 · 9.1
- Clinton County 1 · 4.6
- Cole County 3 · 3.9
- Cooper County 4 · 23.3
- Crawford County 6 · 26.3
- Dade County 1 · 13.1
- Dallas County 2 · 11.2
- Daviess County 1 · 11.8
- DeKalb County 5 · 50.6
- Dent County 5 · 34.1
- Douglas County 2 · 16.3
- Dunklin County 5 · 18.5
- Franklin County 16 · 14.9
- Gasconade County 1 · 6.8
- Gentry County 0 · 0.0
- Greene County 37 · 12.0
- Grundy County 1 · 10.3
- Harrison County 1 · 12.1
- Henry County 2 · 8.9
- Hickory County 1 · 11.2
- Holt County 2 · 47.4
- Howard County 1 · 9.9
- Howell County 6 · 14.7
- Iron County 2 · 21.2
- Jackson County 112 · 15.4
- Jasper County 23 · 18.2
- Jefferson County 25 · 10.8
- Johnson County 11 · 19.7
- Knox County 0 · 0.0
- Laclede County 9 · 24.5
- Lafayette County 8 · 23.9
- Lawrence County 10 · 25.5
- Lewis County 2 · 20.3
- Lincoln County 7 · 10.6
- Linn County 1 · 8.4
- Livingston County 3 · 20.4
- Macon County 2 · 13.2
- Madison County 2 · 15.6
- Maries County 3 · 35.3
- Marion County 4 · 14.1
- McDonald County 10 · 42.0
- Mercer County 1 · 29.3
- Miller County 5 · 19.5
- Mississippi County 3 · 25.1
- Moniteau County 3 · 19.4
- Monroe County 1 · 11.3
- Montgomery County 3 · 26.0
- Morgan County 5 · 22.4
- New Madrid County 5 · 32.7
- Newton County 26 · 42.2
- Nodaway County 0 · 0.0
- Oregon County 4 · 46.2
- Osage County 3 · 22.3
- Ozark County 4 · 44.0
- Pemiscot County 7 · 48.3
- Perry County 3 · 15.7
- Pettis County 7 · 15.9
- Phelps County 8 · 17.7
- Pike County 6 · 33.3
- Platte County 9 · 8.0
- Polk County 5 · 15.1
- Pulaski County 7 · 13.0
- Putnam County 0 · 0.0
- Ralls County 4 · 38.3
- Randolph County 2 · 8.2
- Ray County 2 · 8.6
- Reynolds County 3 · 50.7
- Ripley County 1 · 9.3
- Saline County 0 · 0.0
- Schuyler County 0 · 0.0
- Scotland County 1 · 21.4
- Scott County 5 · 13.2
- Shannon County 1 · 13.7
- Shelby County 2 · 33.4
- St. Charles County 24 · 5.7
- St. Clair County 2 · 20.3
- St. Francois County 10 · 14.8
- St. Louis city 46 · 16.4
- St. Louis County 106 · 10.7
- Ste. Genevieve County 3 · 16.1
- Stoddard County 4 · 14.1
- Stone County 10 · 30.7
- Sullivan County 2 · 34.7
- Taney County 13 · 22.9
- Texas County 5 · 19.5
- Vernon County 5 · 25.3
- Warren County 6 · 15.6
- Washington County 7 · 29.6
- Wayne County 5 · 46.1
- Webster County 8 · 19.0
- Worth County 0 · 0.0
- Wright County 2 · 10.2
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.