Public data sources
Every value in the Georgia Fireground Index traces to one of these authoritative public sources. Click any source to verify it yourself.
U.S. Census Bureau
Visit source ↗Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) · 2024
All Georgia counties, annual
Official annual resident-population estimate; the series behind Census QuickFacts (fact PST045224). Values transcribed from the PEP Vintage 2024 county-level bulk file (co-est2024-alldata) filtered to STATE=13; the 159 counties sum exactly to the published state total of 11,180,878.
Georgia Office of Commissioner of Insurance and Safety Fire (State Fire Marshal / Fire Marshal Office)
Visit source ↗Fire Fatality Reporting Map (OR_FMO_Fatalities_Map) · 2021
All 159 Georgia counties; per-county exact fire-fatality counts aggregated from individual incidents (date/city/count) reported to the State Fire Marshal
Incident-based civilian fire fatalities aggregated by county from the Georgia State Fire Marshal's Fire Fatality Reporting Map. Exact, unsuppressed integer counts — counties with no fatalities show 0. Per-county counts for 2017-2021 sum exactly to the published statewide totals each year (127/117/88/91/70 = 493). The most recent year available from the map is 2021.
County incident sources
Population (Census) and civilian fire deaths (Georgia State Fire Marshal) cover every county. Incident/response figures are published individually by 0 counties, each with its own definition and reporting year — those county sources are cited on each county’s evidence profile. Counties without a public incident source are shown honestly as “Data not publicly available.”
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