Railroad crossing statistics by state, with context

Check the national series before quoting a yearly total.

Use FRA's safety data for national counts of reported crossing incidents and people affected. Confirm the year, retrieval date and whether the period is complete.

The Atlas table is a different view: it matches reports to public crossings retained in its published inventory. Its totals should not be relabeled as the complete national series or used to reproduce a published national total.

Sources: FRA: safety data and reporting.

Read the states in alphabetical order.

The table keeps location order fixed so a larger state is not presented as a worse one. The number of public crossings provides context for the matched reports.

The source date and incident window apply to the table, not to every traffic count in those states. Read the original report for questions about a particular event.

A per-crossing average still needs an explanation.

Dividing reports by crossings gives an average for that defined population and period. It does not adjust for road traffic, train activity or the years a crossing was in operation.

Do not infer that a resident's journey in one state is safer from this average. Current-inventory matches can omit historical locations that closed or changed identifiers.

Sources: FRA: crossing inventory reporting; 49 CFR §225.19: reportable crossing incidents.

Learn how to read an individual report.

Go back to the location and original source.

For local reporting, identify the crossings and their source periods. Keep a selected report's facts separate from a state or national series.

State and city pages help narrow the location; FRA supplies the underlying reporting framework. Cite both when your analysis depends on the Atlas match as well as the agency report.

Sources: FRA: safety data and reporting.

Browse states, cities and individual crossings.

Cite the statistics and the period you used.