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Monthly traffic report

October 2026 on US roads

What the official feeds published on US roads in October 2026: crashes by day, hour, state and road, and every closure and alert counted with them.

Period: October 12 to 31, 2026 · Days and hours in Eastern Time · Incidents published by official feeds, not official crash statistics

Crashes

48,808

about 2,440 a day

Worst day of the week

Thursday

2,883 crashes on average

Worst hour (Eastern Time)

6 PM

3,751 crashes in the month

Time a crash stays listed

30 min

median, from first to last sighting

Key findings

  • 48,808 crashes published by the official feeds from October 12 to 31, 2026, about 2,440 a day.
  • California, Arizona and Minnesota account for 58% of the published crashes.
  • I-5 and US-101 had the most crashes (2,009 and 1,539).
  • Thursdays were the worst day (2,883 crashes on average, against 1,853 on Sundays); the worst hour began at 6 PM Eastern Time.
  • California Highway Patrol published 48% of the crashes.

1Day by day

02,5005,000average 2,440 a dayOctober 1 (Thu): 0 crashes, no data1October 2 (Fri): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 3 (Sat): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 4 (Sun): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 5 (Mon): 0 crashes, no data5October 6 (Tue): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 7 (Wed): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 8 (Thu): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 9 (Fri): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 10 (Sat): 0 crashes, no data10October 11 (Sun): 0 crashes, no dataOctober 12 (Mon): 1,612 crashesOctober 13 (Tue): 1,934 crashesOctober 14 (Wed): 2,560 crashesOctober 15 (Thu): 2,630 crashes15October 16 (Fri): 2,615 crashesOctober 17 (Sat): 1,938 crashesOctober 18 (Sun): 1,793 crashesOctober 19 (Mon): 2,621 crashesOctober 20 (Tue): 2,702 crashes20October 21 (Wed): 2,173 crashesOctober 22 (Thu): 3,096 crashesOctober 23 (Fri): 2,753 crashesOctober 24 (Sat): 2,161 crashesOctober 25 (Sun): 1,912 crashes25October 26 (Mon): 2,653 crashesOctober 27 (Tue): 2,758 crashesOctober 28 (Wed): 2,800 crashesOctober 29 (Thu): 2,923 crashesOctober 30 (Fri): 3,073 crashes30October 31 (Sat): 2,101 crashes

Thursdays, the worst day of the week other days no data or read in part

The archive holds nothing for October 1 to 11: an outage of the archive, not quiet roads. Averages use the 20 full days.

2When crashes happen

12 AM3 AM6 AM9 AM12 PM3 PM6 PM9 PMa dayMon2,295Tue2,465Wed2,511Thu2,883Fri2,814Sat2,067Sun1,853
fewermore crashes in that hour, on average over the month’s full days (Eastern Time)Swipe the chart to see the whole day.

3Crashes by state

  1. 1California23,273
  2. 2Arizona2,856
  3. 3Minnesota2,375
  4. 4Alabama2,315
  5. 5Virginia2,274
  6. 6New York1,568
  7. 7Ohio1,454
  8. 8West Virginia1,308
  9. 9Oregon1,058
  10. 10Michigan906
  11. 11Missouri890
  12. 12North Carolina877
  13. 13Maryland853
  14. 14Utah687
  15. 15Tennessee678

Areas a feed files by county or city are added to their state. 20 crashes are in the totals but not in this ranking. A state near the bottom may simply have no feed that publishes crashes.

4Roads with the most crashes

  1. 1I-52,009
  2. 2US-1011,539
  3. 3I-101,317
  4. 4I-951,080
  5. 5I-151,015
  6. 6I-80970
  7. 7I-405858
  8. 8SR-91671
  9. 9I-64665
  10. 10SR-99636
  11. 11SR-60532
  12. 12I-70524

Counted where the feed names the road; many crashes come without one.

5Everything the feeds published

EventIn the monthPer day read
Closures and work zones126,4806,324
Hazards and other traffic events53,0482,652
Crashes48,8082,440
Weather alerts24,8141,241
Fires2,308115

Per day over the 20 days the archive read. On October 12, the first day after the gap, events that were still open when recording resumed were counted as new, which lifts long-running events such as closures on that day.

6Sources

SourceCrashesAll events
California Highway Patrol23,24750,139
State 511 systems (CARS: 511NY, INDOT, KDOT, MnDOT, MassDOT, NDOT, TDOT)6,43541,900
State 511 system4,99221,778
ALGO Traffic (ALDOT)2,2986,112
VDOT SmarterRoads2,26317,715
ODOT (OHGO)1,4512,118
WV511 (WVDOT)1,2933,135
Oregon DOT (TripCheck)1,0583,129
Maryland CHART8984,412
Michigan DOT (MiDrive)8922,289
MoDOT8902,305
WSDOT6102,228
Local news report492591
CDOT / COtrip4774,282
Courtesy of the Arkansas Department of Transportation453792
KYTC (Kentucky)4021,882
DriveTexas.org1902,724
Iowa DOT 511182609
New England Compass (MaineDOT, NHDOT, VTrans)106151
RIDOT (Rhode Island)102404
511MT / SD51138384
Data provided by 511.org261,050
WYDOT (wyoroad.info)13148

Also read this month, with no crashes in what they publish: State DOT work zone feeds (WZDx); Caltrans; National Weather Service; NYC DOT; HDOT (GoAkamai); Illinois DOT; NMRoads (NMDOT); DDOT (TOPS permits); National Park Service.

Method

The incidents the official feeds publish, read every few minutes by Roadscore, the platform behind Live Roads USA, and kept in its archive. An event belongs to the month in which it first appeared in a feed, and its time is when it first appeared there, which can be some minutes after the crash itself.

These are not the official crash statistics (NHTSA's FARS and the state crash records, which count crashes after investigation). Many crashes never reach a live feed, and states differ: some feeds publish every crash, some only those that block a lane, some none.

Days and hours are counted on Eastern Time (America/New_York) for the whole country, so in states on another clock a crash shows in a different hour than the local one.

Roadscore’s archive has no data for October 1 to 11, so this report covers October 12 to 31, 2026. Totals count what was read; the daily, weekday and hourly averages use only the 20 full days.

More on each feed in sources and method.

See the data as tables
StateCrashes
California23,273
Arizona2,856
Minnesota2,375
Alabama2,315
Virginia2,274
New York1,568
Ohio1,454
West Virginia1,308
Oregon1,058
Michigan906
Missouri890
North Carolina877
Maryland853
Utah687
Tennessee678
Washington643
New Jersey595
Colorado485
Arkansas459
Kansas437
Kentucky414
Massachusetts401
Connecticut355
Nevada275
Indiana253
Texas224
Iowa196
Rhode Island102
Nebraska95
Idaho82
New Hampshire63
Florida49
Maine40
Montana39
Pennsylvania31
Vermont28
South Carolina26
Georgia21
South Dakota17
Illinois16
Oklahoma15
Wyoming14
Louisiana9
Wisconsin9
Alaska7
North Dakota7
Hawaii5
Mississippi4
Hour (Eastern Time)Crashes
12 AM1,209
1 AM1,079
2 AM885
3 AM753
4 AM610
5 AM707
6 AM945
7 AM1,530
8 AM1,945
9 AM2,205
10 AM2,100
11 AM2,573
12 PM2,172
1 PM2,032
2 PM2,050
3 PM2,510
4 PM3,020
5 PM3,473
6 PM3,751
7 PM3,474
8 PM3,299
9 PM2,575
10 PM2,259
11 PM1,652

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