Most Dangerous Roads by County

Greater Houston Region — 13 Counties Analyzed

1,157,237 Crashes Analyzed (2020–2026) | Source: Texas Department of Transportation (CRIS)
1,157,237
Total Crashes
5,484
Deaths
13
Counties
488
Crashes / Day

The Greater Houston region — the 13 counties of the Houston-Galveston (H-GAC) area — recorded 1,157,237 reported traffic crashes between 2020 and 2026, including 5,484 deaths, according to the Texas Department of Transportation's Crash Records Information System (CRIS). That averages roughly 488 crashes every day.

Select a county below to see its most dangerous highway corridors — ranked by crash volume, with fatality and serious-injury counts and the most frequently recorded contributing factors, all drawn directly from official TxDOT records.

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About This Data

The underlying crash records come from the Texas Department of Transportation's Crash Records Information System (CRIS), the official statewide record of reported traffic crashes, covering January 2020 through June 2026 across the 13-county region (1,157,237 total crashes).

The county and corridor rankings are original work produced by Local Traffic Accidents. We geocode the underlying incidents, match them to the numbered state-highway system (Interstates, U.S. and state highways, FM/RM roads, loops, and spurs), and compute the per-county and per-corridor crash, fatality, and serious-injury totals and rankings shown here. The raw crash records are TxDOT's; the geocoding, the derived statistics, and the rankings are our own. Figures update as new records are released by the state.

Source records: Texas Department of Transportation, Crash Records Information System (CRIS), 2020-2026.
Derived dataset & analysis: Local Traffic Accidents — county- and corridor-level geocoding, computation, and rankings, published as an original dataset.

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The analysis, rankings, and editorial commentary on this page are the copyrighted work of LocalTrafficAccidents.com. Underlying crash data is sourced from publicly available Texas Department of Transportation records. Unauthorized reproduction is prohibited without prior written consent.

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