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U.S. states ranked by firearm death rate per 100,000 (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.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-27

National value: 13.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 21.8
RI 5
DE 11.9
CT 6.2
NJ 4.2
MD 11.6
MA 4.1
VT 11.7
NH 10.8

Lowest: 3.9 to 11.6
Group 2: 11.6 to 13
Group 3: 13 to 16.8
Group 4: 16.8 to 19.9
Highest: 19.9 to 27.6

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.


1	Mississippi	27.6
2	New Mexico	26.6
3	Alaska	24.8
4	Wyoming	24.5
5	Alabama	23.7
6	Louisiana	22.5
7	District of Columbia	21.8
7	Montana	21.8
9	Arkansas	20.8
10	Tennessee	20.3
11	Missouri	19.9
12	South Carolina	19.8
13	Oklahoma	19.6
14	Kentucky	19.2
15	Nevada	18.2
16	Georgia	18
17	Arizona	17.9
18	Indiana	17.4
19	South Dakota	17.3
20	North Carolina	16.9
21	Idaho	16.8
22	Colorado	16.4
23	West Virginia	15.9
24	Oregon	15.7
25	Kansas	15.2
26	Ohio	14.8
27	Texas	14.4
28	Florida	14.1
29	Utah	13.3
30	Virginia	13.2
31	Maine	13
32	Illinois	12.5
32	Pennsylvania	12.5
34	Wisconsin	12.4
35	Michigan	12.2
36	Iowa	12.1
36	North Dakota	12.1
38	Delaware	11.9
39	Vermont	11.7
39	Washington	11.7
41	Maryland	11.6
42	Nebraska	11
43	New Hampshire	10.8
44	Minnesota	10.1
45	California	7.3
46	Connecticut	6.2
47	Rhode Island	5
48	New York	4.6
49	New Jersey	4.2
50	Massachusetts	4.1
51	Hawaii	3.9

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.

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U.S. states ranked by firearm death rate per 100,000 (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-death-rate-per-100000-all-intents/

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