New Mexico's roads & bridges, county by county
Where the roads are deadliest and where the bridges are wearing out — traffic fatalities (how many people are killed, and the rate per 100,000 residents) and bridge condition (how many are in good shape versus structurally poor). New Mexico's long rural distances and interstate corridors make road safety one of the state's hardest challenges. Open a county for its safety and infrastructure picture, or search your address.
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Click a county for its road-safety and bridge-condition picture — traffic deaths, the rate per 100,000 residents, bridge condition, and where it stands versus the rest of the state.
Traffic fatalities: NHTSA FARS, 2020–2022 (three-year total, shown as an annual average and a rate per 100,000 residents), from static.nhtsa.gov. Bridge condition: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2023 — every public bridge rated Good (lowest of deck/superstructure/substructure/culvert ≥ 7), Fair (5–6), or Poor / "structurally deficient" (≤ 4), from fhwa.dot.gov. An honest caution on the rate: small counties along interstates (e.g. Guadalupe, De Baca on I-40/I-25) show very high per-capita fatality rates because many people killed there are travelers passing through, not residents — so the rate overstates local risk. That's why the priority list ranks by the number of people killed, which isn't distorted that way. FARS counts deaths, not injuries or crashes. Describes conditions to inform where safety and repair investment goes; it never ranks whose community matters more. How this data may & may not be used →