AZ Law Now · Data Desk
Data Reports
We read Arizona's crash and fatality records the way we read a case. We pull the state and federal data, compute the lethality ourselves, and publish what the one-year headlines miss. Every figure traces to a named primary source, and every number is free to use with credit.
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21-Year Water-Incident Lens
43.5% of every Valley water-emergency call answered by one department, 2005-2025The Arizona Drowning Map
We read 21 years of fire-department water-incident reports, all 3,252 of them. One department answered nearly half, and the share of calls ending in death climbed from 31.7% to 42.4% even as raw call volume fell.
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Statewide Per-Capita FARS Lens
#1 Tucson, the most dangerous Arizona city to drive, per residentThe Most Dangerous Cities in Arizona
We ranked Arizona city by city: Tucson leads at 24.95 traffic deaths per 100,000 residents, and of every US city of half a million people, only Memphis is deadlier. Pima County leads every million-person county for pedestrian deaths.
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Data Year 2024
1,228 people killed on Arizona roads in a single yearPhoenix's Deadliest Intersections
We computed the lethality ourselves: running a red light is 2.32x more deadly per crash than speeding, and a midnight crash is nearly 8x more likely to kill than one at 4 PM.
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25-Year FARS Lens
4,409 pedestrians killed walking in Arizona, 2000 to 2024Arizona Pedestrian Deaths
We read 25 years of the federal fatality record: the toll held flat for 15 years, then nearly doubled after 2014, and most died in the dark on roads that had the lights on.
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Largest-County FARS Lens
#1 of America’s 12 most populous counties for motorcyclist death ratePhoenix Motorcycle Deaths
Maricopa County loses riders faster than any of America’s biggest counties: 12.48 deaths per 100,000, 569 killed from 2020 to 2024, ahead of Las Vegas and more than three times Chicago.
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US Cities 500k+ FARS Lens
#2 of every US city over 500,000 people for traffic-death rate, behind MemphisTucson Traffic Deaths
Tucson's roads feel dangerous. Here's the data: among America's cities of 500,000 or more, only Memphis has a higher death rate, and 675 families lost someone here between 2020 and 2024.
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