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Nebraska vehicle complaints

4,352 NHTSA complaints filed by Nebraska drivers across 50 vehicle models, the models your neighbors flag most.

Complaints
4,352
Crashes
229
Models
50

Volume is not severity

According to NHTSA ODI filings attributed to Nebraska drivers, the FORD F-150 leads complaint volume at 284 (#1 of 50 tracked models) but the HONDA CIVIC leads crash-linked reports at 13 (#1); the FORD FOCUS leads reported fatalities at 2 (#1).

284
FORD F-150 complaints #1
13
HONDA CIVIC crashes #1
2
FORD FOCUS deaths #1

Counts sum NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation complaints self-reported by owners in this state. Crash and fatality flags come from those filings, not a separate crash registry.

ODI volume LIGHT Crash-flag FLAG (5.3%)

Crash-flagged vs other filings

Nebraska filings in this extract split 5.3% crash-flagged (FLAG) versus other ODI rows, orthogonal to the make/model top-N bars below.

Nebraska vs all jurisdictions by NHTSA complaint volume

Where this state's owner-attributed ODI complaint count sits among every state and DC on PlainCars

8,698 40th of 51 higher than 11 of 51 jurisdictions

States and DC, banded by owner-attributed NHTSA ODI complaint count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more jurisdictions. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source NHTSA ODI owner-reported state field · 2026-08-08

Nebraska has more filings than 11 of 51 jurisdictions in this extract. Absolute volume tracks population and reporting culture; it is not a per-vehicle defect rate.

Data updated August 2026. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 2,000,000 owner filings sit in the national ODI file; this page counts the subset attributed to Nebraska drivers. See our methodology.

Nebraska drivers have submitted 4,352 safety complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration across 50 distinct vehicle models. Those filings include 229 crash reports , 96 fire incidents , and 6 reported fatalities , each self-reported through NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation intake form.

State is geocoded from the owner's self-reported ZIP. The table below ranks models by complaint count; crash, fire, and death columns isolate filings that reported a serious outcome.

Severe outcomes reported in Nebraska

229
Crash reports
96
Fire incidents
6
Reported fatalities
Most complained make in Nebraska
FORD (1,453 complaints)

Most-complained vehicles in Nebraska

Ranked by NHTSA complaints filed by in-state owners

complaints

What this shows The FORD F-150 draws the most NHTSA complaints from Nebraska drivers. State-level volume reflects how common a model is locally as much as its defect rate.

Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation As of 2026

Full ranking: top 50 most-complained vehicles in Nebraska

# Vehicle Complaints
1 FORD F-150 284
2 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 206
3 FORD ESCAPE 200
4 FORD EXPLORER 175
5 FORD FUSION 168
6 CHEVROLET MALIBU 160
7 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY 127
8 FORD WINDSTAR 123
9 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 122
10 FORD TAURUS 119
11 RAM 1500 116
12 DODGE DURANGO 116
13 HONDA ACCORD 107
14 FORD EDGE 105
15 CHEVROLET IMPALA 98
16 JEEP CHEROKEE 94
17 JEEP WRANGLER 90
18 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 84
19 CHEVROLET EQUINOX 83
20 FORD FOCUS 82
21 FORD F-250 82
22 HONDA CR-V 79
23 NISSAN ALTIMA 68
24 HYUNDAI TUCSON 66
25 HYUNDAI SONATA 66
26 FORD RANGER 66
27 JEEP LIBERTY 65
28 TOYOTA CAMRY 63
29 PONTIAC GRAND PRIX 63
30 SUBARU OUTBACK 62
31 DODGE RAM 1500 62
32 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 61
33 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 58
34 CHEVROLET BLAZER 58
35 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER 55
36 KIA SORENTO 54
37 HONDA PILOT 53
38 DODGE DAKOTA 52
39 CHEVROLET COBALT 50
40 GMC SIERRA 1500 49
41 FORD EXPEDITION 49
42 PONTIAC G6 48
43 DODGE RAM 2500 48
44 CHRYSLER PACIFICA 48
45 NISSAN PATHFINDER 47
46 HONDA ODYSSEY 46
47 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 46
48 NISSAN SENTRA 44
49 HONDA CIVIC 43
50 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 42

Nearest ODI volume peers

Closest owner-attributed complaint totals to Nebraska's 8,698 filings (LIGHT band) - NHTSA ODI volume stamps, not an alphabetical state strip.

Delaware

7,850 · LIGHT · Δ848

Idaho

7,511 · LIGHT · Δ1,187

Maine

10,324 · LIGHT · Δ1,626

Rhode Island

6,911 · LIGHT · Δ1,787
Compare FORD F-150 vs JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE →

Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, with fatality-linked filings cross-checked against NHTSA FARS and crash-test ratings drawn from NHTSA NCAP. State is self-reported by the vehicle owner.

How Nebraska compares to the national picture

Nebraska sits #40 of 51 jurisdictions on owner-attributed ODI volume (LIGHT; 11 jurisdictions file fewer). Absolute counts track population and reporting culture more than per-vehicle defect rates, pair Nebraska's FLAG crash-flag share (5.3%) with model-level national rankings before treating a local leaderboard as a reliability verdict. Inside this extract the FORD F-150 leads Nebraska volume; check whether that nameplate's local share exceeds its national share before calling a regional pattern.

A note on self-reported state data

The state field on each NHTSA complaint is supplied by the consumer at filing, there is no mandatory check that the owner filed from their registration state, nor that the incident occurred in Nebraska. A a Nebraska resident reporting a purchase made elsewhere still tags here; a visitor who filed from another home state will not. NHTSA does not deduplicate by VIN across years, so multi-year filings from the same vehicle accumulate. Treat Nebraska's LIGHT ranking as directional and open the model pages linked above.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. State totals sum NHTSA ODI complaints attributed to Nebraska drivers (4,352 filings across 50 models; vintage August 2026; LIGHT/FLAG). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.