Data Sources and National Estimates Methodology Overview for the U.S. Fire Administration's Topical Fire Report Series (Volume 21)
Data Sources and National Estimates Methodology Overview for the U.S. Fire Administration's Topical Fire Report Series (Volume 21)

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Published: 2021

Total Pages: 13

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This document addresses national estimates, as well as the data sources used to derive the estimates, with an emphasis on the specific NFIRS data elements analyzed in the topical reports. NFIRS data quality, including “unknown” data entries and missing data values, is also discussed. Because the majority of the USFA’s topical reports address fires and losses in buildings, this overview focuses on buildings.

Fire in the United States; 1995-2004
Fire in the United States; 1995-2004

Author: U. S. Fire Administration

Publisher: FEMA

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 77

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This 14th edition covers the 10-year period 1995 to 2004 with a primary focus on 2004. For the first time, only native National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) 5.0 data are used for NFIRS-based analyses. The report addresses the overall national fire problem. Detailed analyses of the residential and non-residential fire problem, firefighter casualties, and other subsets of the national fire problem are not included. These topic-specific analyses will be addressed as separate, stand-alone publications.

National Estimates Methodology for Building Fires and Losses
National Estimates Methodology for Building Fires and Losses

Author: United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency. United States Fire Administration. National Fire Data Center

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Published: 2012

Total Pages: 12

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This documentation details the U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) current fire data estimation methodology for all building (i.e., residential and nonresidential) fires and associated losses. The documentation consists of three sections: 1) An overview of national estimates that defines what national estimates are; describes the overall approach and methodology used to derive them; and summarizes the basic issues with this current, accepted approach. This national estimates methodology serves as the basis for the computation of USFA's building fire estimates. 2) A discussion of what is meant by "buildings" versus "structures" and the implications these classifications have on deriving estimates of the fire problem that are meaningful to the public and prevention efforts. 3) A step-by-step methodology which describes how USFA computes national estimates of building fires and associated losses using data from USFA's National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) and estimates from the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) annual Survey of Fire Departments for U.S. Fire Experience.

Data Sources and Methodology Documentation
Data Sources and Methodology Documentation

Author: National Fire Data Center (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 21

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The U.S. Fire Administration's (USFA's) data analyses are based primarily on the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) data, but use other sources as well. Summary numbers for fires, deaths, injuries and dollar loss are from the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA's) annual survey of fire departments. Other data sources used by USFA include 2010 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality data as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program, population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, inflation adjustments from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' consumer price index, and state statistics from state fire marshals' offices or their equivalents are also used. Because the NCHS mortality data are based on a census or enumeration of deaths based on death certificates rather than an estimate, it is used as the primary source for the computation of fire death rates and relative risk. The most current year available for the NCHS mortality data is 2010. Please note that for consistency, national trend data are based on the NFPA survey estimates, not the NCHS mortality data.