US Counties With the Highest Firearm Suicide Rates
2,220 US counties ranked by firearm suicide rate, from highest to lowest. First are Catron County, NM (58.8), Musselshell County, MT (47.7) and Hot Springs County, WY (44.1). The middle one of the 2,220 has 11.4.
What this measures
Suicides by gun per 100,000 residents a year, 2018-2023. Source: CDC WONDER mortality; RAND firearm ownership database.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | per 100,000 a year |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wyoming | 20.3 |
| 2 | Montana | 18.1 |
| 3 | Alaska | 16.7 |
| 4 | Idaho | 14.3 |
| 5 | New Mexico | 13.9 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | 13.1 |
| 7 | West Virginia | 12.8 |
| 8 | Nevada | 12.5 |
| 9 | Arizona | 12 |
| 10 | Arkansas | 12 |
| 11 | Missouri | 11.9 |
| 12 | Colorado | 11.8 |
| 13 | Alabama | 11.7 |
| 14 | Kentucky | 11.4 |
| 15 | Tennessee | 11.4 |
| 16 | North Dakota | 11.3 |
| 17 | Oregon | 11.1 |
| 18 | Utah | 11 |
| 19 | Maine | 10.9 |
| 20 | Kansas | 10.9 |
| 21 | Vermont | 10.7 |
| 22 | South Dakota | 10.5 |
| 23 | Mississippi | 10.5 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 10.3 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 9.93 |
| 26 | Indiana | 9.61 |
| 27 | Georgia | 9.54 |
| 28 | New Hampshire | 9.09 |
| 29 | Florida | 8.71 |
| 30 | North Carolina | 8.56 |
| 31 | Ohio | 8.41 |
| 32 | Washington | 8.3 |
| 33 | Texas | 8.27 |
| 34 | Iowa | 8.24 |
| 35 | Virginia | 8.12 |
| 36 | Michigan | 7.99 |
| 37 | Wisconsin | 7.97 |
| 38 | Nebraska | 7.97 |
| 39 | Pennsylvania | 7.82 |
| 40 | Minnesota | 6.56 |
| 41 | Delaware | 6.47 |
| 42 | Illinois | 4.85 |
| 43 | Maryland | 4.49 |
| 44 | California | 4.11 |
| 45 | Connecticut | 3.34 |
| 46 | Rhode Island | 2.83 |
| 47 | Hawaii | 2.79 |
| 48 | New York | 2.37 |
| 49 | New Jersey | 2.17 |
| 50 | Massachusetts | 2.05 |
| 51 | District of Columbia | 1.55 |
More on firearm suicide rate
- US Counties With the Lowest Firearm Suicide Rates
- Firearm suicide rate by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.