What the Data Shows

Greene County, Pennsylvania recorded 46 total road fatalities across 41 reported crashes during the 2016-2022 reporting window, according to NHTSA's Fatality Analysis Reporting System. The most recent year covered by the data logged 0 deaths on county roads, and the annual average works out to approximately 5.1 fatalities per year. Adjusted for population, the fatality rate is 14.8 per 100,000 residents, which places it close to the national middle by that per-capita measure among the 3,137 U.S. counties in this dataset.

Cause-code breakdowns are not individually published for Greene County in the current FARS release, so readers looking for contributing-factor data should use the Pennsylvania state page, which aggregates county-level case files into statewide totals. Either way, the underlying records are drawn from a census of fatal crashes, not a statistical sample, so the counts are actual deaths rather than estimates.

The directional trend for Greene County is decreasing, which suggests that road-design improvements, enforcement, or emergency-response changes are reducing the death toll. Residents, insurers, and policy analysts can use this baseline alongside population density, highway mile data, and rural-versus-urban road mix to judge whether Greene County's 46-death total is proportionate to its exposure. All numbers are for research and informational use only.