Ramsey County
Ranks 53rd of 87 Minnesota counties.
Higher score = lower civilian fire-death rate.
- Fire-death rate (3-yr avg)
- 0.86
- per 100,000 residents / yr
- Civilian fire deaths
- 14
- 2018-2021 total
- Population
- 542,015
- 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 | 542,015 | U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) (2024) (opens in a new tab) |
| Civilian fire deaths (2018–2021) | 14 (2018-2021) | Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division (Department of Public Safety) — “Fire in Minnesota” annual report — Runs, Dollar Losses and Deaths by County (2021) (opens in a new tab) Civilian fire deaths (incident-based) from the Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division annual report. |
| Civilian fire deaths per 100,000 (3-yr avg annual, 2018–2021) | 0.86 per 100kscored | Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division (Department of Public Safety) — “Fire in Minnesota” annual report — Runs, Dollar Losses and Deaths by County (2021) (opens in a new tab) Average annual civilian fire deaths per 100,000, computed from Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division 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; NFPA publishes only national estimates. (investigated: Minnesota SFMD/MFIRS, 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. The “Fire in Minnesota” report publishes per-county dollar loss, but it is a property-damage figure on a different basis (MFIRS participation-dependent), not a civilian-outcome metric comparable across counties. (investigated: Minnesota SFMD “Fire in Minnesota” report) |
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 (Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division, annual “Fire in Minnesota” report (Runs, Dollar Losses and Deaths by County)) are both from authoritative public sources.
- No county-published incident/response figure was found in public sources.
- A moderate reporting-window fire-death count (2018, 2019, 2021) (14) supports a reasonably stable rate.
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 · 2018-2021Civilian fire deaths by year — 2018: 5, 2019: 3, 2021: 6.
14 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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