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Every value in the Minnesota Fireground Index traces to one of these authoritative public sources. Click any source to verify it yourself.

U.S. Census Bureau

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Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) · 2024

All Minnesota 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=27; the 87 counties sum exactly to the published state total of 5,793,151.

Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division (Department of Public Safety)

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“Fire in Minnesota” annual report — Runs, Dollar Losses and Deaths by County · 2021

All 87 Minnesota counties; civilian fire deaths by county (incident county), reporting years 2018, 2019, 2021.

Incident-based civilian fire deaths from the Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division's annual “Fire in Minnesota” statistical report, table “Runs, Dollar Losses and Deaths by County” (Fire Deaths column). Derived from the Minnesota Fire Incident Reporting System (MFIRS) and reconciled to the SFMD's statewide fire-death count — the per-county Fire Deaths column sums exactly to the published statewide total each year (2018 = 37, 2019 = 47, 2021 = 68 = 152). Every county is listed each year, so a blank is a true zero (a complete statewide census). Excludes firefighter line-of-duty deaths. WINDOW: 3 reporting years — 2018, 2019, 2021 (no 2020 report; the modern report discontinued the county table), so the average-annual rate is computed over 3 years. Report PDFs: 2018 https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2019/other/191037.pdf ; 2019 https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2020/other/200956.pdf ; 2021 https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2023/other/231826.pdf .

County incident sources

Population (Census) and civilian fire deaths (Minnesota State Fire Marshal Division) 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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