Covington County
Ranks 55th of 67 Alabama counties.
Higher score = lower civilian fire-death rate.
- Fire-death rate (5-year)
- 4.24
- per 100,000 residents / yr
- Civilian fire deaths
- 8
- 2021-2025 total
- Population
- 37,748
- U.S. Census (2024)
- Public sources
- 2
- 3 metrics used · 4 unavailable
Evidence profile
Each metric below is either drawn from a cited public source or explicitly marked unavailable. Nothing is estimated or invented.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 37,748 | U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) (2024) (opens in a new tab) |
| Civilian fire deaths (5-year) | 8 (2021-2025) | Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office (Alabama Department of Insurance) — SFMO Annual Report — Fatality by County (fire fatalities) (2025) (opens in a new tab) Civilian fire deaths (incident-based) from the Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office annual report (Fatality by County tables). |
| Civilian fire deaths per 100,000 (5-yr avg annual) | 4.24 per 100kscored | Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office (Alabama Department of Insurance) — SFMO Annual Report — Fatality by County (fire fatalities) (2025) (opens in a new tab) Average annual civilian fire deaths per 100,000, computed from Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office fire-death counts ÷ Census population. |
| Fire/EMS incident responses | Data not publicly available | No county-published incident/response figure found in public sources. |
| Civilian fire injuries | Data not publicly available | Data not publicly available. No authoritative per-county public dataset; NFIRS is not published as county injury totals and NFPA publishes only national estimates. (investigated: Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office/NFIRS, NFPA, USFA, county reports) |
| Firefighter injuries | Data not publicly available | Data not publicly available. Only national NFPA survey estimates exist; not published per county. (investigated: NFPA, USFA, county reports) |
| Fire dollar loss | Data not publicly available | Data not publicly available. Not itemized per county in public reports; requires NFIRS raw data or a records request. (investigated: Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office/NFIRS, county reports) |
Data confidence
Confidence reflects source authority, how many public metrics exist, and how statistically reliable the outcome data is — not whether this county reports like any other.
- Population (U.S. Census) and civilian fire deaths (Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office, Annual Report — Fatality by County) are both from authoritative public sources.
- No county-published incident/response figure was found in public sources.
- A moderate five-year fire-death count (8) supports a reasonably stable rate.
Fire-death trend
Published civilian fire deaths by year, 2021-2025. Counts are small, so read alongside Data Confidence.
Civilian fire deaths by year
AL State Fire Marshal · 2021-2025Civilian fire deaths by year — 2021: 1, 2022: 3, 2023: 0, 2024: 1, 2025: 3.
8 civilian fire deaths over five years. Annual counts are small, so a single event can shift a year materially — this is reflected in Data Confidence.
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