Counties in Alaska by traffic fatalities
Anchorage Municipality had the highest traffic fatalities of 25 counties in 2021, at 21. Yakutat City and Borough had the lowest, at 0. The median was 1 and the figure for Alaska was 70. Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Map of counties, 2021
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All counties, 2021
Full ranking
| Rank | Counties | 2021 | Change on 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 21 | +5% |
| 2 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 15 | +15.4% |
| 3 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 13 | +116.7% |
| 4 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 5 | -54.5% |
| 5 | Bethel Census Area | 2 | |
| 5 | Bristol Bay Borough | 2 | |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 2 | |
| 5 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 2 | |
| 5 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 2 | +100% |
| 10 | Kodiak Island Borough | 1 | |
| 10 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 1 | |
| 10 | Nome Census Area | 1 | -50% |
| 10 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 1 | 0% |
| 10 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 1 | -50% |
| 10 | Sitka City and Borough | 1 | |
| 16 | Aleutians East Borough | 0 | |
| 16 | Aleutians West Census Area | 0 | |
| 16 | Denali Borough | 0 | |
| 16 | Dillingham Census Area | 0 | |
| 16 | Haines Borough | 0 | |
| 16 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 0 | -100% |
| 16 | Kusilvak Census Area | 0 | -100% |
| 16 | North Slope Borough | 0 | |
| 16 | Petersburg Borough | 0 | -100% |
| 16 | Yakutat City and Borough | 0 |
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About this ranking
People killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes during the year. FARS counts people who die within 30 days of a crash involving a motor vehicle travelling on a public road, by the place of the crash, not of residence.
A police-based count of deaths. It differs from death certificate counts (CDC) and from the WHO road traffic death rate (road_traffic_death_rate), which is modelled for international comparison.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 2 counties with data in other periods have no value for 2021 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Fatality Analysis Reporting System. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash. https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2021/National/FARS2021NationalCSV.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.Citation styles
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. (2026). Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash (Counties in Alaska by traffic fatalities, 2021) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2021/National/FARS2021NationalCSV.zip
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Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash, Counties in Alaska by traffic fatalities, 2021. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 24 June 2026, https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2021/National/FARS2021NationalCSV.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/traffic-fatalities/alaska-counties?period=2021. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 2026. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash. Counties in Alaska by traffic fatalities, 2021. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2021/National/FARS2021NationalCSV.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/traffic-fatalities/alaska-counties?period=2021.
Harvard
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (2026) Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash, Counties in Alaska by traffic fatalities, 2021 [Dataset]. Available at: https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2021/National/FARS2021NationalCSV.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/traffic-fatalities/alaska-counties?period=2021 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
BibTeX
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Which county has the highest traffic fatalities?
Anchorage Municipality, with 21 in 2021, according to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Which county has the lowest traffic fatalities?
Yakutat City and Borough, with 0 in 2021.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), national CSV files: people killed (sum of FATALS in accident.csv) by county of the crash. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 2 counties have no value for 2021 and are not ranked.
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