The National Park Service maintains internal records of annual fatalities at the parks, and researchers have studied them from time to time in recent years. Here are the important things to know:

1. You are not going to die at a national park.

I mean technically, you might. But the odds of it happening are really, really, low. Somewhere between 120 and 140 people typically die at national parks each year, not counting suicides, according to numbers maintained by the National Park Service. That may sound like a lot, but consider that roughly 280 million people visit the parks each year. That means that if you go to a national park, your odds of dying there are roughly 1 in 2 million.

For comparison, that’s similar to the likelihood that you’ll die of ebola at some point in your life.

Read the article “Forget Bears: Here’s What Really Kills People at National Parks” on washingtonpost.com.