# Counties in West Virginia by traffic fatalities, 2024

All 55 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/west-virginia-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Kanawha County | 28 |
| 2 | Raleigh County | 23 |
| 3 | Berkeley County | 21 |
| 4 | Monongalia County | 15 |
| 5 | Wood County | 14 |
| 6 | Jefferson County | 11 |
| 7 | Cabell County | 7 |
| 7 | Harrison County | 7 |
| 7 | Ohio County | 7 |
| 10 | Greenbrier County | 6 |
| 10 | Hardy County | 6 |
| 10 | Marshall County | 6 |
| 10 | Mercer County | 6 |
| 10 | Nicholas County | 6 |
| 10 | Summers County | 6 |
| 16 | Hampshire County | 5 |
| 16 | Logan County | 5 |
| 16 | Wayne County | 5 |
| 19 | Lincoln County | 4 |
| 19 | Mineral County | 4 |
| 19 | Mingo County | 4 |
| 19 | Putnam County | 4 |
| 19 | Randolph County | 4 |
| 19 | Ritchie County | 4 |
| 25 | Marion County | 3 |
| 25 | Mason County | 3 |
| 25 | McDowell County | 3 |
| 25 | Wyoming County | 3 |
| 29 | Barbour County | 2 |
| 29 | Boone County | 2 |
| 29 | Braxton County | 2 |
| 29 | Brooke County | 2 |
| 29 | Calhoun County | 2 |
| 29 | Fayette County | 2 |
| 29 | Hancock County | 2 |
| 29 | Jackson County | 2 |
| 29 | Pendleton County | 2 |
| 29 | Pocahontas County | 2 |
| 29 | Preston County | 2 |
| 29 | Roane County | 2 |
| 29 | Taylor County | 2 |
| 29 | Tyler County | 2 |
| 29 | Upshur County | 2 |
| 29 | Wetzel County | 2 |
| 45 | Gilmer County | 1 |
| 45 | Grant County | 1 |
| 45 | Monroe County | 1 |
| 45 | Morgan County | 1 |
| 49 | Clay County | 0 |
| 49 | Doddridge County | 0 |
| 49 | Lewis County | 0 |
| 49 | Pleasants County | 0 |
| 49 | Tucker County | 0 |
| 49 | Webster County | 0 |
| 49 | Wirt County | 0 |