Maryland County Rankings

Maryland/County rankings

Fire deaths 2020-2021

Counties are ranked by the Overall Fireground Index — a normalization of the civilian fire-death rate (MD State Fire Marshal deaths 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.

Maryland county-equivalents 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	Kent County19,557 pop.	74	0.00	0	limited
2	Queen Anne's County53,688 pop.	74	0.00	0	limited
3	Howard County339,668 pop.	66	0.47	8	high
4	Frederick County299,317 pop.	64	0.60	9	moderate
5	Montgomery County1,082,273 pop.	64	0.59	32	high
6	Anne Arundel County602,350 pop.	62	0.70	21	high
7	Somerset County25,241 pop.	60	0.79	1	moderate
8	Calvert County94,913 pop.	59	0.84	4	moderate
9	Cecil County106,305 pop.	58	0.94	5	moderate
10	Prince George's County966,629 pop.	58	0.95	46	moderate
11	Harford County265,514 pop.	57	0.98	13	moderate
12	Charles County174,478 pop.	56	1.03	9	moderate
13	Talbot County38,244 pop.	56	1.05	2	moderate
14	Baltimore County852,425 pop.	55	1.10	47	high
15	Carroll County177,108 pop.	53	1.24	11	high
16	Wicomico County106,329 pop.	51	1.32	7	moderate
17	St. Mary's County116,469 pop.	50	1.37	8	high
18	Washington County157,228 pop.	50	1.40	11	moderate
19	Caroline County34,248 pop.	34	2.34	4	moderate
20	Worcester County54,337 pop.	30	2.58	7	moderate
21	Allegany County67,097 pop.	28	2.68	9	moderate
22	Baltimore City568,271 pop.	28	2.67	76	moderate
23	Garrett County28,393 pop.	13	3.52	5	moderate
24	Dorchester County33,138 pop.	1	4.22	7	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.