# Counties in Washington by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 39 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/washington-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | King County | 152 |
| 2 | Pierce County | 102 |
| 3 | Snohomish County | 64 |
| 4 | Spokane County | 55 |
| 5 | Clark County | 41 |
| 6 | Yakima County | 35 |
| 7 | Grant County | 26 |
| 7 | Thurston County | 26 |
| 9 | Cowlitz County | 23 |
| 10 | Kitsap County | 18 |
| 11 | Benton County | 17 |
| 11 | Skagit County | 17 |
| 13 | Mason County | 15 |
| 14 | Island County | 14 |
| 15 | Whatcom County | 12 |
| 16 | Franklin County | 11 |
| 16 | Okanogan County | 11 |
| 18 | Grays Harbor County | 10 |
| 19 | Kittitas County | 9 |
| 19 | Stevens County | 9 |
| 21 | Lewis County | 8 |
| 22 | Chelan County | 7 |
| 22 | Lincoln County | 7 |
| 24 | Adams County | 6 |
| 24 | Walla Walla County | 6 |
| 26 | Clallam County | 5 |
| 26 | Jefferson County | 5 |
| 26 | Whitman County | 5 |
| 29 | Douglas County | 4 |
| 30 | Pacific County | 2 |
| 30 | Skamania County | 2 |
| 32 | Asotin County | 1 |
| 32 | Ferry County | 1 |
| 32 | Klickitat County | 1 |
| 32 | Pend Oreille County | 1 |
| 32 | San Juan County | 1 |
| 32 | Wahkiakum County | 1 |
| 38 | Columbia County | 0 |
| 38 | Garfield County | 0 |