Bars over time
U.S. Bank Failures by Year
FDIC-insured banks and savings institutions that failed each year
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
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FDIC failures data and Failed Bank List. Open-bank assistance is not counted; savings institutions resolved by the Resolution Trust Corporation are. The current year appears once it ends.
Every year of bank failures since the FDIC began insuring deposits: the tail of the Depression, the savings-and-loan and banking crisis, the 2008 wave and the quiet years between.
What this chart reads
- U.S. Bank Failures per Year (FDIC)as “Bank failures”latest 2025-12-31
Sources
U.S. Bank Failures per Year (FDIC). Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: BankFind Suite failures API (api.fdic.gov/banks/failures) and the Failed Bank List. Public domain (FDIC data catalog, U.S. public domain label). Source: FDIC. Refreshed weekly.
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