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Firearm deaths: U.S. states ranked (2024)

Measure: Firearm deaths (all intents). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Suicide, drug overdose and firearm deaths by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2024.

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Data last updated
2026-10-27
Download full table CSVSource: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (opens in a new tab)

National value: 44,447 (United States).

Washington: 915Idaho: 331Montana: 247North Dakota: 95Minnesota: 582Michigan: 1,228Ohio: 1,745Pennsylvania: 1,624New York: 896Vermont: 76New Hampshire: 152Maine: 181Arizona: 1,331California: 2,853New Mexico: 563Texas: 4,389Louisiana: 1,031Mississippi: 810Alabama: 1,212Florida: 3,191Georgia: 1,985South Carolina: 1,064North Carolina: 1,835Virginia: 1,153District of Columbia: 148Maryland: 716Delaware: 123New Jersey: 393Connecticut: 224Rhode Island: 55Massachusetts: 287Oregon: 663Utah: 454Wyoming: 143Nevada: 582Colorado: 961South Dakota: 159Nebraska: 218Kansas: 446Oklahoma: 794Iowa: 389Missouri: 1,234Wisconsin: 735Illinois: 1,563Kentucky: 870Arkansas: 638Tennessee: 1,448West Virginia: 281Indiana: 1,196Alaska: 182Hawaii: 56

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 55 to 182
  • Group 2: 182 to 454
  • Group 3: 454 to 870
  • Group 4: 870 to 1,234
  • Highest: 1,234 to 4,389
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

1Texas4,389
2Florida3,191
3California2,853
4Georgia1,985
5North Carolina1,835
6Ohio1,745
7Pennsylvania1,624
8Illinois1,563
9Tennessee1,448
10Arizona1,331
11Missouri1,234
12Michigan1,228
13Alabama1,212
14Indiana1,196
15Virginia1,153
16South Carolina1,064
17Louisiana1,031
18Colorado961
19Washington915
20New York896
21Kentucky870
22Mississippi810
23Oklahoma794
24Wisconsin735
25Maryland716
26Oregon663
27Arkansas638
28Minnesota582
28Nevada582
30New Mexico563
31Utah454
32Kansas446
33New Jersey393
34Iowa389
35Idaho331
36Massachusetts287
37West Virginia281
38Montana247
39Connecticut224
40Nebraska218
41Alaska182
42Maine181
43South Dakota159
44New Hampshire152
45District of Columbia148
46Wyoming143
47Delaware123
48North Dakota95
49Vermont76
50Hawaii56
51Rhode Island55

Source: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence – State, data.cdc.gov dataset fpsi-y8tj (intents All_Suicide, Drug_OD and FA_Deaths; U.S. total from the National dataset t6u2-f84c; data as of 2026-06-22). Reference period: 2024.

Cite this ranking

U.S. states ranked by firearm deaths (all intents) (2024). Data: CDC, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence – State (fpsi-y8tj); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-27. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-firearm-deaths-all-intents/

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