Fatal crash rate · State
Fatal crash rate in Oklahoma
Fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA in Oklahoma, 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.
Oklahoma2024 · fatal crashes recorded by NHTSA
14.5fatal crashes per 100,000 residents in 2024
In 2024, NHTSA recorded 594 fatal crashes in Oklahoma, where 4,097,758 people lived. That is 14.5 fatal crashes for every 100,000 residents, and 645 people died in those crashes. Over 2020 to 2024 the average was 15.7. Per mile driven, Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma; the white posts are the United States.
- Per 100,000
- 594 fatal crashes ÷ 4,097,758 residents × 100,000 = 14.5
- Five-year
- 3,154 crashes (2020 to 2024) ÷ 20,143,804 resident-years × 100,000 = 15.7
- Per 100M miles
- 594 fatal crashes ÷ 46,456 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 | 600 | 653 | 3,965,243 | 15.1 | 42,000 | 1.4 |
| 2021 | 681 | 762 | 3,992,760 | 17.1 | 44,760 | 1.5 |
| 2022 | 643 | 710 | 4,025,327 | 16.0 | 44,566 | 1.4 |
| 2023 | 636 | 711 | 4,062,716 | 15.7 | 45,760 | 1.4 |
| 2024 | 594 | 645 | 4,097,758 | 14.5 | 46,456 | 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.
What the record says about those crashes, 2020 to 2024
Every figure is a count of the 3,154 fatal crashes NHTSA coded to Oklahoma over five years, from the fields FARS records. Nothing is estimated or inferred.
| Road type | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Interstate | 450 | 14% |
| Other freeway or expressway | 56 | 2% |
| Other principal arterial | 854 | 27% |
| Minor arterial | 635 | 20% |
| Major collector | 713 | 23% |
| Minor collector | 22 | 1% |
| Local road | 416 | 13% |
| Unknown or not reported | 8 | 0% |
| Rural | 1,784 | 57% |
| Urban | 1,362 | 43% |
| Time of day | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight to 5:59 am | 552 | 18% |
| 6 am to 11:59 am | 628 | 20% |
| Noon to 5:59 pm | 904 | 29% |
| 6 pm to 11:59 pm | 997 | 32% |
| Hour unknown | 73 | 2% |
| Light | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Daylight | 1,543 | 49% |
| Dark, not lighted (or lighting unknown) | 1,081 | 34% |
| Dark, lighted | 368 | 12% |
| Dawn or dusk | 128 | 4% |
| Unknown or not reported | 34 | 1% |
| Weather | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | 2,191 | 69% |
| Cloudy | 678 | 21% |
| Rain | 183 | 6% |
| Snow, sleet or freezing rain | 11 | 0% |
| Fog, smog or smoke | 32 | 1% |
| Severe wind, blowing sand or other | 7 | 0% |
| Unknown or not reported | 52 | 2% |
| Involving | Crashes | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A pedestrian | 448 | 14% |
| A bicyclist or other cyclist | 65 | 2% |
| A speeding-related vehicle | 885 | 28% |
| A driver police reported as drinking | 507 | 16% |
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 Oklahoma
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 6 · 30.5
- Alfalfa County 0 · 0.0
- Atoka County 3 · 20.7
- Beaver County 3 · 61.0
- Beckham County 5 · 22.5
- Blaine County 0 · 0.0
- Bryan County 12 · 23.8
- Caddo County 4 · 15.2
- Canadian County 14 · 7.7
- Carter County 9 · 18.3
- Cherokee County 6 · 12.3
- Choctaw County 3 · 21.1
- Cimarron County 5 · 235.7
- Cleveland County 22 · 7.3
- Coal County 1 · 18.3
- Comanche County 7 · 5.8
- Cotton County 0 · 0.0
- Craig County 0 · 0.0
- Creek County 15 · 20.3
- Custer County 1 · 3.5
- Delaware County 9 · 21.6
- Dewey County 1 · 23.4
- Ellis County 2 · 55.2
- Garfield County 10 · 16.1
- Garvin County 6 · 22.8
- Grady County 10 · 17.2
- Grant County 1 · 24.2
- Greer County 1 · 18.4
- Harmon County 0 · 0.0
- Harper County 3 · 93.9
- Haskell County 1 · 8.5
- Hughes County 6 · 44.6
- Jackson County 7 · 28.4
- Jefferson County 0 · 0.0
- Johnston County 3 · 29.1
- Kay County 6 · 13.7
- Kingfisher County 3 · 19.1
- Kiowa County 3 · 36.3
- Latimer County 2 · 20.9
- Le Flore County 14 · 28.2
- Lincoln County 6 · 17.1
- Logan County 6 · 11.1
- Love County 6 · 56.6
- Major County 2 · 26.5
- Marshall County 2 · 12.4
- Mayes County 14 · 34.9
- McClain County 7 · 14.4
- McCurtain County 11 · 35.7
- McIntosh County 4 · 20.3
- Murray County 5 · 36.1
- Muskogee County 9 · 13.5
- Noble County 0 · 0.0
- Nowata County 1 · 10.5
- Okfuskee County 4 · 35.2
- Oklahoma County 96 · 11.7
- Okmulgee County 5 · 13.5
- Osage County 11 · 23.5
- Ottawa County 11 · 36.1
- Pawnee County 3 · 18.7
- Payne County 10 · 11.9
- Pittsburg County 8 · 18.4
- Pontotoc County 5 · 13.0
- Pottawatomie County 11 · 14.8
- Pushmataha County 3 · 27.6
- Roger Mills County 3 · 91.3
- Rogers County 14 · 13.8
- Seminole County 10 · 42.8
- Sequoyah County 8 · 19.8
- Stephens County 7 · 15.8
- Texas County 2 · 9.8
- Tillman County 2 · 29.4
- Tulsa County 79 · 11.4
- Wagoner County 12 · 13.1
- Washington County 9 · 16.7
- Washita County 0 · 0.0
- Woods County 0 · 0.0
- Woodward County 4 · 20.1
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.