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Deadliest counties in Alaska

Counties in Alaska ranked by traffic deaths across 2020–2024, and by their average yearly death rate. Counties with more residents and more road miles tend to have more deaths, so the rate is the fairer comparison.

Most traffic deaths, 2020–2024

# County Deaths 2020–2024 Per 100,000 a year
1 Anchorage Municipality 105 7.3
2 Matanuska-Susitna Borough 86 15.2
3 Kenai Peninsula Borough 52 17.2
4 Fairbanks North Star Borough 40 8.4
5 Southeast Fairbanks Census Area 8 n/a
6 Juneau City and Borough 7 n/a
7 Valdez-Cordova Census Area 6 n/a
8 Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area 6 n/a
9 Copper River Census Area 5 n/a
10 Petersburg Borough 4 n/a
11 Ketchikan Gateway Borough 3 n/a
12 Nome Census Area 3 n/a
13 Northwest Arctic Borough 3 n/a
14 Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area 3 n/a
15 Kodiak Island Borough 3 n/a
16 Bethel Census Area 2 n/a
17 Bristol Bay Borough 2 n/a
18 Sitka City and Borough 2 n/a
19 Chugach Census Area 2 n/a
20 Wade Hampton Census Area 1 n/a
21 Lake and Peninsula Borough 1 n/a
22 North Slope Borough 1 n/a
23 Yakutat City and Borough 1 n/a
24 Aleutians East Borough 1 n/a

Highest death rates, 2020–2024

Deaths per 100,000 residents a year, averaged over 2020–2024. Only counties with at least 20 deaths in that time are ranked, because rates based on fewer deaths swing too much from year to year to compare. The rate divides deaths by the people who live in a county, so small counties crossed by busy highways can rank high: many of the people who die there are travelling through. How rates are worked out

# County Deaths 2020–2024 Per 100,000 a year
1 Kenai Peninsula Borough 52 17.2
2 Matanuska-Susitna Borough 86 15.2
3 Fairbanks North Star Borough 40 8.4
4 Anchorage Municipality 105 7.3

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