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U.S. states ranked by 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.

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

National value: 44,447 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 148
RI 55
DE 123
CT 224
NJ 393
MD 716
MA 287
VT 76
NH 152

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.


1	Texas	4,389
2	Florida	3,191
3	California	2,853
4	Georgia	1,985
5	North Carolina	1,835
6	Ohio	1,745
7	Pennsylvania	1,624
8	Illinois	1,563
9	Tennessee	1,448
10	Arizona	1,331
11	Missouri	1,234
12	Michigan	1,228
13	Alabama	1,212
14	Indiana	1,196
15	Virginia	1,153
16	South Carolina	1,064
17	Louisiana	1,031
18	Colorado	961
19	Washington	915
20	New York	896
21	Kentucky	870
22	Mississippi	810
23	Oklahoma	794
24	Wisconsin	735
25	Maryland	716
26	Oregon	663
27	Arkansas	638
28	Minnesota	582
28	Nevada	582
30	New Mexico	563
31	Utah	454
32	Kansas	446
33	New Jersey	393
34	Iowa	389
35	Idaho	331
36	Massachusetts	287
37	West Virginia	281
38	Montana	247
39	Connecticut	224
40	Nebraska	218
41	Alaska	182
42	Maine	181
43	South Dakota	159
44	New Hampshire	152
45	District of Columbia	148
46	Wyoming	143
47	Delaware	123
48	North Dakota	95
49	Vermont	76
50	Hawaii	56
51	Rhode Island	55

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 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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