Alabama County Rankings

Alabama/County rankings

Fire deaths 2021-2022

Alabama's 67 counties are ranked by the Overall Fireground Index — a normalization of the civilian fire-death rate (Alabama State Fire Marshal's Office counts per Census population), the one metric comparable across every county. Data confidence flags counties where small counts or sparse public reporting make the profile less certain; it is never folded into the score.

Alabama counties ranked by Overall Fireground Index, with fire-death rate, five-year deaths, and data confidence.
Rank	County	Index	Fire-death rate	Deaths (5yr)	Confidence
1	Bullock County9,901 pop.	75	0.00	0	limited
2	Fayette County15,863 pop.	75	0.00	0	limited
3	Greene County7,127 pop.	75	0.00	0	limited
4	Macon County18,159 pop.	75	0.00	0	limited
5	Tuscaloosa County241,212 pop.	73	0.25	3	moderate
6	Lee County187,847 pop.	72	0.32	3	moderate
7	Chambers County33,813 pop.	70	0.59	1	moderate
8	Shelby County235,969 pop.	70	0.51	6	moderate
9	Coffee County56,358 pop.	68	0.71	2	moderate
10	Cullman County92,604 pop.	67	0.86	4	moderate
11	Elmore County91,042 pop.	67	0.88	4	moderate
12	Houston County109,366 pop.	67	0.91	5	moderate
13	Autauga County61,464 pop.	66	0.98	3	moderate
14	Baldwin County261,608 pop.	66	0.99	13	moderate
15	Madison County423,355 pop.	66	0.94	20	moderate
16	Pike County33,124 pop.	64	1.21	2	moderate
17	Blount County60,163 pop.	63	1.33	4	moderate
18	Geneva County27,259 pop.	62	1.47	2	moderate
19	Jefferson County664,744 pop.	62	1.47	49	moderate
20	Morgan County126,084 pop.	62	1.43	9	moderate
21	Limestone County118,942 pop.	61	1.51	9	moderate
22	Choctaw County12,052 pop.	60	1.66	1	moderate
23	Etowah County103,207 pop.	59	1.74	9	moderate
24	Franklin County31,874 pop.	58	1.88	3	moderate
25	Mobile County412,339 pop.	57	1.99	41	moderate
26	Chilton County47,262 pop.	56	2.12	5	moderate
27	Lauderdale County97,502 pop.	56	2.05	10	moderate
28	Lowndes County9,485 pop.	56	2.11	1	moderate
29	Monroe County19,057 pop.	56	2.10	2	moderate
30	DeKalb County73,122 pop.	55	2.19	8	moderate
31	Henry County18,141 pop.	55	2.20	2	moderate
32	St. Clair County96,927 pop.	54	2.27	11	moderate
33	Cleburne County15,905 pop.	52	2.51	2	moderate
34	Marshall County102,156 pop.	52	2.55	13	moderate
35	Hale County15,116 pop.	51	2.65	2	moderate
36	Randolph County23,067 pop.	51	2.60	3	moderate
37	Washington County15,018 pop.	51	2.66	2	moderate
38	Colbert County58,785 pop.	50	2.72	8	moderate
39	Dale County50,067 pop.	50	2.80	7	moderate
40	Marion County29,323 pop.	50	2.73	4	moderate
41	Montgomery County225,894 pop.	50	2.74	31	moderate
42	Jackson County53,780 pop.	48	2.98	8	moderate
43	Walker County65,260 pop.	47	3.06	10	moderate
44	Barbour County24,358 pop.	45	3.28	4	moderate
45	Butler County18,256 pop.	45	3.29	3	moderate
46	Calhoun County116,427 pop.	44	3.44	20	moderate
47	Sumter County11,607 pop.	44	3.45	2	moderate
48	Talladega County81,375 pop.	44	3.44	14	moderate
49	Bibb County22,258 pop.	42	3.59	4	moderate
50	Clarke County22,142 pop.	42	3.61	4	moderate
51	Cherokee County26,138 pop.	40	3.83	5	moderate
52	Coosa County10,291 pop.	40	3.89	2	moderate
53	Wilcox County9,865 pop.	38	4.05	2	moderate
54	Clay County14,239 pop.	37	4.21	3	moderate
55	Covington County37,748 pop.	37	4.24	8	moderate
56	Escambia County36,630 pop.	35	4.37	8	moderate
57	Lamar County13,543 pop.	35	4.43	3	moderate
58	Crenshaw County13,114 pop.	34	4.58	3	moderate
59	Russell County58,837 pop.	32	4.76	14	moderate
60	Tallapoosa County40,699 pop.	31	4.91	10	moderate
61	Dallas County35,545 pop.	29	5.06	9	moderate
62	Lawrence County33,567 pop.	26	5.36	9	moderate
63	Pickens County18,508 pop.	26	5.40	5	moderate
64	Conecuh County11,109 pop.	10	7.20	4	moderate
65	Marengo County18,512 pop.	7	7.56	7	moderate
66	Winston County23,869 pop.	7	7.54	9	moderate
67	Perry County7,719 pop.	0	10.36	4	moderate

Counties are ranked only against one another. A low fire-death count in a small county produces a high score but a limited confidence flag — the uncertainty is shown, not hidden. See the methodology and data sources.