How many U.S. banks have failed each year?

Bank failures peaked at 530 in 1989, during the savings-and-loan crisis, when about 2,400 banks and thrifts failed from 1980 to 1995. The financial crisis brought 140 failures in 2009 and 157 in 2010, and only five banks failed in 2023, though three of them were among the biggest ever; 2 failed in 2025. Nine banks failed in 1934, the FDIC's first year, and none failed in 2005, 2006, 2018, 2021 or 2022. The count includes savings and loans closed by the FSLIC and the Resolution Trust Corporation, but not banks kept open with government help.

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Key facts

Measure: Banks that failed. Written from the data below.

  • The latest figure, for 2025, is 2.
  • That is down 78% from 9 in 1934.
  • The highest was 530 in 1989.
  • The lowest was 0, first reached in 2005.

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FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data
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Public domain (U.S. government work; FDIC)
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Chartly. “How many U.S. banks have failed each year?” Chart. Data: FDIC BankFind Suite, bank failures and assistance data, https://banks.data.fdic.gov/bankfind-suite/failures (data as of December 31, 2025). https://chart.ly/charts/bank-failures-by-year (accessed November 6, 2026).

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Year Banks that failed
1934 9
1935 25
1936 69
1937 75
1938 74
1939 60
1940 43
1941 15
1942 20
1943 5
1944 2
1945 1
1946 1
1947 5
1948 3
1949 4
1950 4
1951 2
1952 3
1953 2
1954 2
1955 5
1956 2
1957 1
1958 4
1959 3
1960 1
1961 5
1962 1
1963 2
1964 7
1965 5
1966 7
1967 4
1968 3
1969 9
1970 7
1971 6
1972 1
1973 6
1974 4
1975 13
1976 16
1977 5
1978 7
1979 10
1980 10
1981 9
1982 34
1983 50
1984 83
1985 139
1986 162
1987 217
1988 232
1989 530
1990 381
1991 268
1992 179
1993 50
1994 15
1995 8
1996 6
1997 1
1998 3
1999 8
2000 7
2001 4
2002 11
2003 3
2004 4
2005 0
2006 0
2007 3
2008 25
2009 140
2010 157
2011 92
2012 51
2013 24
2014 18
2015 8
2016 5
2017 8
2018 0
2019 4
2020 4
2021 0
2022 0
2023 5
2024 2
2025 2

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