Suicide, homicide and firearm deaths
CDC's count and crude death rate for suicide, homicide, firearm deaths and drug overdose, by state and, for Idaho, by county, from death certificates.
Figures
Count
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence. Data period 2024. Published .
Pages built on this dataset
Publisher
- Organization
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Publisher’s dataset
- Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence
- File or API used
- https://data.cdc.gov/resource/fpsi-y8tj.json
- Methodology
- https://www.cdc.gov/injury-violence-data/about/index.html
Coverage
- Geography
- States, the District of Columbia and Idaho's counties
- Time coverage
- 2019-2025
- Update frequency
- Monthly (trailing twelve months); annual figures added yearly
- Published
- September 4, 2026
- Retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- License of the records
- Public domain. U.S. federal government work.
- Rows
- 6,751 observations, 2019-2026
Measures
| Measure | What it measures | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Suicide, homicide and firearm deaths | Number of deaths from suicide, homicide, firearm injury or drug overdose in a calendar year. | count |
| Suicide, homicide and firearm death rate | Deaths from suicide, homicide, firearm injury or drug overdose per 100,000 residents in a calendar year, not age-adjusted. | per 100k |
| Suicide, homicide and firearm deaths, 12 months ending | Provisional number of deaths from suicide, homicide, firearm injury or drug overdose in the 12 months ending in the named month. | count |
| Suicide, homicide and firearm death rate, 12 months ending | Provisional deaths from suicide, homicide, firearm injury or drug overdose per 100,000 residents, in the 12 months ending in the named month, not age-adjusted. | per 100k |
Caveats
- Each rate is a crude rate: the death count divided by the resident population, with no adjustment for a state's or county's age mix.
- Drug overdose here counts only a death CDC classified as unintentional or of undetermined intent; a death by drug overdose that a medical examiner ruled a suicide is counted under suicide instead, not here, so this figure differs in definition from this site's other overdose figures on /health/drug-overdose-deaths/, which include every intent.
- Firearm deaths (all intents) includes firearm suicide, firearm homicide, unintentional firearm deaths and others; it is not a category alongside firearm suicide and firearm homicide but a total that contains both, so the three do not add to a fourth figure.
- A trailing-twelve-months figure is a rolling count for the 12 months ending in the named month, not a single month's deaths, and CDC has not finished processing every death certificate in that window; suicide, homicide and firearm figures run about 4 months behind CDC's own processing date and drug overdose about 6.
- A county or state with fewer than about 10 deaths in a period has no published count, to protect the privacy of the people involved; CDC substitutes a smoothed statistical estimate of the rate in many of these cases rather than publishing none, noted where it applies.
- This file has no rate for the United States as a whole; only states, the District of Columbia and Idaho's counties are covered.
Where sources disagree
- Suicide, homicide and firearm deaths, Idaho, 2024: CDC's VSRR provisional drug overdose file publishes 326. This dataset counts 293 Idaho drug overdose deaths in calendar year 2024, classified as unintentional or of undetermined intent only. The VSRR file (this site's /health/drug-overdose-deaths/) counts 326 for the 12 months ending December 2024, on a rolling window rather than a calendar year, and includes every intent, including an overdose a medical examiner ruled a suicide. The two are not the same measurement and are not expected to match.
How to cite
Understand Idaho, “Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence”, compiled from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mapping Injury, Overdose, and Violence. Retrieved September 25, 2026. https://understandidaho.com/data/cdc-injury-mapping/.
Cite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention directly for the figures themselves.
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