goldGovernment / regulatorUS

NHTSA recall database

NHTSA recall database is a government-published primary source from US ingested into the Apex vehicle specification database. It contributes 19,306 active rows covering recall count, categories, dates.

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Licence & attribution

Licence identifier: us-gov-public-domain
Attribution: None required
Issuing body / market: US

This source is in the public domain or released under a CC0 dedication. No copyright restrictions apply; no attribution is legally required, though Apex credits all sources for transparency.

Fields contributed

Recall count, categories, dates

Recall count
categories
dates

About this source

Tier

Gold tier — regulator-verified primary

Regulator-published primary data. Highest confidence; PCAF DQ score 2 by default.

Row count (active)

19,306

Active, non-superseded provenance rows in the current snapshot

Variants touched

6,428

Distinct vehicle variants carrying at least one value from this source

Source type

Government / regulator

Official dataset published by a national regulator, ministry, or government agency.

PCAF DQ score

DQ 2 (regulator primary)

Default data-quality score for provenance rows from this source tier

Source code

nhtsa-recall

Used in the provenance table and API responses

Visit source website

https://api.nhtsa.gov/recalls/