Chatham County
Ranks 93rd of 159 Georgia counties.
Higher score = lower civilian fire-death rate.
- Fire-death rate (5-year)
- 1.50
- per 100,000 residents / yr
- Civilian fire deaths
- 23
- 2017-2021 total
- Population
- 307,336
- 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 | 307,336 | U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) (2024) (opens in a new tab) |
| Civilian fire deaths (5-year) | 23 (2017-2021) | Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire (State Fire Marshal / Fire Marshal Office) — Fire Fatality Reporting Map (OR_FMO_Fatalities_Map) (2021) (opens in a new tab) Civilian fire deaths (incident-based) from the Georgia State Fire Marshal (Fire Fatality Reporting Map), 2017-2021. |
| Civilian fire deaths per 100,000 (5-yr avg annual) | 1.50 per 100kscored | Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire (State Fire Marshal / Fire Marshal Office) — Fire Fatality Reporting Map (OR_FMO_Fatalities_Map) (2021) (opens in a new tab) Average annual civilian fire deaths per 100,000, computed from Georgia 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: Georgia State Fire Marshal/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: Georgia State Fire Marshal/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 (Georgia State Fire Marshal, Fire Fatality Reporting Map) are both from authoritative public sources.
- No county-published incident/response figure was found in public sources.
- A substantial five-year fire-death count (23) makes the per-capita rate statistically stable.
Fire-death trend
Published civilian fire deaths by year, 2017-2021. Counts are small, so read alongside Data Confidence.
Civilian fire deaths by year
GA State Fire Marshal · 2017-2021Civilian fire deaths by year — 2017: 8, 2018: 7, 2019: 7, 2020: 1, 2021: 0.
23 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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