2015–2024 ROAD DEATHS
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Each square represents 1% of all road deaths.
Where motorcyclists account for the largest share of road deaths.
Allen Law analyzed road fatalities from 2015 to 2024 to compare motorcyclists’ share of road deaths across U.S. states, major cities and Florida counties.
These percentages describe motorcyclists’ share of recorded road deaths, not the likelihood of a rider being killed per trip or mile.
01 / Location rankings
Compare motorcyclists’ share of road deaths
Choose states, major cities or Florida counties, then search for a location.
Includes the 50 most populous U.S. cities, based on 2024 Census estimates. Results cover city boundaries, not wider metro areas.
| Rank | Location | Motorcyclist deaths | All road deaths | Motorcyclist share |
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Select a location name to move to its summary. On a phone, expand “Death counts” for the underlying totals.
02 / A closer look at Florida
Motorcyclists accounted for nearly one in five Florida road deaths
From 2015 to 2024, motorcyclists accounted for 18.99% of Florida’s road deaths, the seventh-highest share among states and D.C.
See where your Florida county ranks03 / The highway picture
Highways with the most recorded motorcyclist deaths.
Routes are ranked by total motorcyclist deaths, not their share of all road deaths.
Longer or busier highways can have more deaths. These counts do not show how risky an individual journey is. Only identifiable highways are included; deaths without an identifiable highway are excluded from this ranking.
Counts cover 2015–2024. A state view counts only motorcyclist deaths within that state.
04 / Behind the findings
Methodology and sources
We compared the number of motorcyclists killed with everyone killed on roads in the same place during 2015–2024. The percentage shows motorcyclists’ share of road deaths, not the chance of dying on a motorcycle trip.
Motorcyclists include riders and passengers on motorcycles, scooters and mopeds. Locations refer to where crashes happened, not where those killed lived.
Read small counts with care. A small number of deaths can produce a high or changeable share. Compare the counts alongside the percentage.
Coverage and calculation
Allen Law analyzed 2015–2024 records from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). For each location, motorcyclist deaths were divided by all road deaths recorded in the same area and period, then multiplied by 100. The rankings cover the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the 50 most populous U.S. incorporated places selected using 2024 Census estimates, and all 67 Florida counties.
Shares are displayed to two decimal places. Rankings use unrounded shares; exact ties share a rank. Equal displayed percentages may therefore have different ranks.
Technical definitions and coding
Motorcyclist deaths include operators and passengers on vehicles classified under FARS BODY_TYP codes 80–89, with PER_TYP 1 or 2 and fatal injury code INJ_SEV 4. This also includes other specified motored cycles.
Methodology: highway rankings
Identifiable routes are ranked by total recorded motorcyclist deaths in 2015–2024. This view shows up to ten leading routes per selected geography. The national dataset includes routes with at least ten deaths; state lists may include routes below that threshold. Route-name variants were normalized in the reference analysis. Two-digit Interstates and U.S. routes are pooled nationally; state routes and three-digit auxiliary Interstates are qualified by state. State views use deaths within the selected state. Ramp records are assigned to the route they serve.
Limitations and interpretation
Shares and counts do not measure risk per motorcycle journey or mile, account for differences in motorcycle use, or establish crash causation or fault. A lower share does not necessarily mean a location is safer. City boundaries vary, with some consolidated city-county jurisdictions covering substantially larger areas. Small death counts can produce volatile percentages. The headline rankings do not use motorcycle-registration or population-based rates.
Data period: 2015–2024.