New Castle County

Data confidence: moderate (75/100)

Overall Fireground Index

Ranks 3rd of 3 Delaware counties.

Higher score = lower civilian fire-death rate.

Fire-death rate (5-year): 1.29; per 100,000 residents / yr
Civilian fire deaths: 38; 2021-2025 total
Population: 588,093; U.S. Census (2024)
Public sources: 2; 3 metrics used · 4 unavailable

Every value, every source

Evidence profile

Each metric below is either drawn from a cited public source or explicitly marked unavailable. Nothing is estimated or invented.

Evidence profile for New Castle County: each public metric, its value or availability, and its source.
Metric	Value	Source
Population	588,093	U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) (2024) (opens in a new tab)
Civilian fire deaths (5-year)	38 (2021-2025)	Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM) — OSFM Annual Reports — Fire Deaths by county (2025) (opens in a new tab) Civilian fire deaths (incident-based) from the Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal annual report.
Civilian fire deaths per 100,000 (5-yr avg annual)	1.29 per 100kscored	Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM) — OSFM Annual Reports — Fire Deaths by county (2025) (opens in a new tab) Average annual civilian fire deaths per 100,000, computed from Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal 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: Delaware OSFM/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. Published only as statewide fire-loss dollar figures in the OSFM annual report, not as a civilian-comparable per-county metric. (investigated: Delaware OSFM annual reports/NFIRS)

How much public evidence backs this county

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.

Data confidence: moderate (75/100)3 metrics · 2 sources

Population (U.S. Census) and civilian fire deaths (Delaware Office of the State Fire Marshal, annual reports, Fire Deaths by county) are both from authoritative public sources.
No county-published incident/response figure was found in public sources.
A substantial five-year fire-death count (38) makes the per-capita rate statistically stable.

Direction of travel

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 · 2021-2025

38 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.

Comparable peers

Related counties

The Delaware county-equivalents nearest in population — a like-for-like basis for comparison.

Sussex County

43rank 2

271,134 pop. · 1.25/100k

Kent County

75rank 1

192,690 pop. · 1.14/100k

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