# Counties in Montana by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 56 values come from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `traffic_fatalities`
- Unit: count
- Definition: 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.
- Source: 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 (https://static.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/downloads/FARS/2024/National/FARS2024NationalCSV.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/national-highway-traffic-safety-administration
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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/2024/National/FARS2024NationalCSV.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/traffic-fatalities/montana-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Yellowstone County | 24 |
| 2 | Flathead County | 23 |
| 3 | Gallatin County | 21 |
| 4 | Missoula County | 15 |
| 5 | Cascade County | 11 |
| 6 | Big Horn County | 10 |
| 7 | Lake County | 9 |
| 8 | Jefferson County | 7 |
| 8 | Stillwater County | 7 |
| 10 | Beaverhead County | 6 |
| 10 | Lewis and Clark County | 6 |
| 12 | Deer Lodge County | 5 |
| 12 | Glacier County | 5 |
| 14 | Broadwater County | 4 |
| 14 | Carbon County | 4 |
| 14 | Park County | 4 |
| 14 | Ravalli County | 4 |
| 18 | Chouteau County | 3 |
| 18 | Custer County | 3 |
| 18 | Lincoln County | 3 |
| 18 | Musselshell County | 3 |
| 18 | Pondera County | 3 |
| 18 | Rosebud County | 3 |
| 18 | Sanders County | 3 |
| 18 | Silver Bow County | 3 |
| 26 | Blaine County | 2 |
| 26 | Meagher County | 2 |
| 26 | Phillips County | 2 |
| 26 | Sweet Grass County | 2 |
| 30 | Garfield County | 1 |
| 30 | Golden Valley County | 1 |
| 30 | Granite County | 1 |
| 30 | Hill County | 1 |
| 30 | Madison County | 1 |
| 30 | Mineral County | 1 |
| 30 | Roosevelt County | 1 |
| 30 | Teton County | 1 |
| 30 | Treasure County | 1 |
| 39 | Carter County | 0 |
| 39 | Daniels County | 0 |
| 39 | Dawson County | 0 |
| 39 | Fallon County | 0 |
| 39 | Fergus County | 0 |
| 39 | Judith Basin County | 0 |
| 39 | Liberty County | 0 |
| 39 | McCone County | 0 |
| 39 | Petroleum County | 0 |
| 39 | Powder River County | 0 |
| 39 | Powell County | 0 |
| 39 | Prairie County | 0 |
| 39 | Richland County | 0 |
| 39 | Sheridan County | 0 |
| 39 | Toole County | 0 |
| 39 | Valley County | 0 |
| 39 | Wheatland County | 0 |
| 39 | Wibaux County | 0 |