# US states by firearm deaths, 2024

All 51 values come from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `firearm_deaths`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Deaths from firearm injuries of any intent (suicide, homicide, unintentional, legal intervention or undetermined) during the year, by the state of residence of the person who died. NCHS National Vital Statistics System final death data.
- Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, number of deaths (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/cdc
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). NCHS Stats of the States: firearm mortality by state, number of deaths. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/state-stats/deaths/firearms.html. Retrieved 2026-10-12. These data are available free from CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, ATSDR, HHS or the United States Government.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/firearm-deaths/us-states

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Texas | 4,389 |
| 2 | Florida | 3,191 |
| 3 | California | 2,853 |
| 4 | Georgia | 1,985 |
| 5 | North Carolina | 1,835 |
| 6 | Ohio | 1,745 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | 1,624 |
| 8 | Illinois | 1,563 |
| 9 | Tennessee | 1,448 |
| 10 | Arizona | 1,331 |
| 11 | Missouri | 1,234 |
| 12 | Michigan | 1,228 |
| 13 | Alabama | 1,212 |
| 14 | Indiana | 1,196 |
| 15 | Virginia | 1,153 |
| 16 | South Carolina | 1,064 |
| 17 | Louisiana | 1,031 |
| 18 | Colorado | 961 |
| 19 | Washington | 915 |
| 20 | New York | 896 |
| 21 | Kentucky | 870 |
| 22 | Mississippi | 810 |
| 23 | Oklahoma | 794 |
| 24 | Wisconsin | 735 |
| 25 | Maryland | 716 |
| 26 | Oregon | 663 |
| 27 | Arkansas | 638 |
| 28 | Minnesota | 582 |
| 28 | Nevada | 582 |
| 30 | New Mexico | 563 |
| 31 | Utah | 454 |
| 32 | Kansas | 446 |
| 33 | New Jersey | 393 |
| 34 | Iowa | 389 |
| 35 | Idaho | 331 |
| 36 | Massachusetts | 287 |
| 37 | West Virginia | 281 |
| 38 | Montana | 247 |
| 39 | Connecticut | 224 |
| 40 | Nebraska | 218 |
| 41 | Alaska | 182 |
| 42 | Maine | 181 |
| 43 | South Dakota | 159 |
| 44 | New Hampshire | 152 |
| 45 | District of Columbia | 148 |
| 46 | Wyoming | 143 |
| 47 | Delaware | 123 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 95 |
| 49 | Vermont | 76 |
| 50 | Hawaii | 56 |
| 51 | Rhode Island | 55 |