{"meta":{"dataset":"boating-accidents","title":"Recreational boating accidents by state and year: incidents, deaths, injuries and damage (U.S. Coast Guard), 2019 to 2024","version":"1.0.0","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23792748","doiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792748","conceptDoi":"10.5281/zenodo.23792746","license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Probative, Recreational boating accidents by state and year: incidents, deaths, injuries and damage (U.S. Coast Guard), 2019 to 2024, version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792748, licensed CC BY 4.0.","citation":"Probative. (2026). Recreational boating accidents by state and year: incidents, deaths, injuries and damage (U.S. Coast Guard), 2019 to 2024 (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23792748","disclaimer":"Not legal advice. These are counts of incidents reported to the U.S. Coast Guard under state and federal reporting rules, not findings of fault; many incidents are never reported, so the counts are a floor. Claims and deadlines for a boating injury are for your own counsel.","notice":"Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.","lastChecked":"2026-10-30","url":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/boating-accidents/jurisdictions/AK.json","humanUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/boating-accidents/","statusCodes":{"P":"primary source","S":"secondary source","D":"ABA model default","U":"open question"}},"key":"AK","records":[{"id":"boating-accidents:AK:2019","dataset":"boating-accidents","jurisdiction":"AK","level":"state","year":2019,"stateName":"Alaska","status":"P","text":"Alaska, 2019: the Coast Guard counted 14 recreational boating incidents, 8 of them fatal, with 11 deaths, 7 injured and $60,500 in property damage.","value":14,"unit":"recreational boating incidents reported to the Coast Guard","incidents":14,"fatal_incidents":8,"injury_incidents":3,"property_damage_incidents":3,"deaths":11,"injured":7,"damages_usd":60500,"effectiveFrom":"2019-01-01","effectiveTo":"2019-12-31","sources":[{"label":"USCG Recreational Boating Statistics, Table 30 (incident, casualty and damage data by state)","url":"https://uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.php","kind":"primary","accessed":"2026-10-30"}],"source":{"agency":"U.S. Coast Guard, Office of Auxiliary and Boating Safety","url":"https://uscgboating.org/statistics/accident_statistics.php","table":"Recreational Boating Statistics, Table 30","file":"Recreational-Boating-Statistics-2019.pdf","release":"Recreational Boating Statistics 2019","accessed":"2026-10-30"},"flags":{"suppressed":false,"noise":false,"preliminary":false,"moe":null},"lastChecked":"2026-10-30","confidence":"high","confidenceBasis":"primary source; 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