[OC] Ertrinkungsfälle in den USA nach Bundesstaaten (1999–2020)

I made these maps in R with the ‘usmap’ and ‘ggplot2’ packages, among others.

Data are from the CDC.[[1]](https://wonder.cdc.gov/Deaths-by-Underlying-Cause.html) The original data is divided by whether the subject simply drowned or fell and drowned, but I combined these. About 24% of the drownings were not in the other three categories: natural water (45%), swimming pools (19%) and bathtub (12%), either because it wasn’t recorded or for some other reason. If a state had fewer than 10 deaths across the entire 1999-2020 time period, the figure is suppressed as per the terms of use for this source.

The bodies-of-water map and the swimming pool map make sense to me, but I’m befuddled by the Rocky Mountain Bathtub Drowning Belt. Correlates pretty highly to suicide rates and elevation, but I can’t quite figure it out.

With such great weather, 420 public beaches plus rivers, lakes and over a million swimming pools I am surprised California’s drowning rate is so low.

How does Wyoming have a higher natural water drowning rate than California? Are the Wyoming surfing schools that incompetent?

I expected Georgia to be higher. It always seemed like people who can’t swim swarm to Lake Lanier in the Summer.