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

The second annual Northwest MN TZD workshop will be 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.
These maps show the locations of fatal and serious injury crashes in the NW region between 2007 and 2009.