Northwest TZD includes the Minnesota counties of Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Norman, Pennington, Polk, Red Lake, and Roseau.

The fourth annual Northwest MN TZD workshop was held June 6, 2013, in Bemidji, MN.
In 2012, the seat belt compliance rate in Northwest Minnesota was 73.9 percent—a significant increase from the 2011 rate of 65.8 percent.
This map shows the locations of fatal and serious injury crashes in the Northwest region between 2008 and 2012.