Sussex County
Ranks 21st of 21 New Jersey counties.
Higher score = lower civilian fire-death rate.
- Fire-death rate (5-year)
- 1.36
- per 100,000 residents / yr
- Civilian fire deaths
- 10
- 2020-2024 total
- Population
- 147,444
- 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 | 147,444 | U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) (2024) (opens in a new tab) |
| Civilian fire deaths (5-year) | 10 (2020-2024) | New Jersey Department of Health — NJSHAD Injury Mortality Query (Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry): fire/flame/smoke deaths by county of residence, 2020–2024 (2024) (opens in a new tab) Civilian fire/flame/smoke deaths (NCHS external-cause matrix, incl. ICD-10 X00-X09, all injury intents) from New Jersey Vital Statistics (NJ DOH), residence-based. |
| Civilian fire deaths per 100,000 (5-yr avg annual) | 1.36 per 100kscored | New Jersey Department of Health — NJSHAD Injury Mortality Query (Death Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry): fire/flame/smoke deaths by county of residence, 2020–2024 (2024) (opens in a new tab) Average annual civilian fire deaths per 100,000, computed from New Jersey Vital Statistics deaths ÷ 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; NJFIRS is not published as county injury totals and NFPA publishes only national estimates. (investigated: NJ Division of Fire Safety/NJFIRS, 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 NJFIRS raw data or a records request. (investigated: NJ Division of Fire Safety/NJFIRS, 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 (New Jersey Department of Health, New Jersey Vital Statistics) are both from authoritative public sources.
- No county-published incident/response figure was found in public sources.
- A moderate five-year fire-death count (10) supports a reasonably stable rate.
Fire-death trend
Published civilian fire deaths by year, 2020-2024. Counts are small, so read alongside Data Confidence.
Civilian fire deaths by year
New Jersey Vital Statistics (NJ DOH) · 2020-2024Civilian fire deaths by year — 2020: 0, 2021: 3, 2022: 2, 2023: 2, 2024: 3.
10 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.
Related counties
The New Jersey county-equivalents nearest in population — a like-for-like basis for comparison.
Departments serving this county
Department Intelligence — public funding, staffing, readiness, ISO/PPC, grants, and transparency for the fire departments serving this county. Separate from the fire-death score above.
No public department records have been ingested for this county yet. When they are, this panel will list the departments serving the county, how many have public funding identified, public staffing evidence, and an ISO/PPC rating found, plus the transparency mix. A blank here means “no public source found yet,” not that departments lack funding or staffing.
NJ DCA directory intelligence
County-level rollup of the NJ DCA fire-department directory — self-reported roster survey data, separate from and lower-confidence than the curated profiles above. Roster counts are not on-duty staffing.
Statewide-directory context for Sussex County from the NJ DCA Annual Fire Department and Agency Directory (2023). These are self-reported survey records — separate from the curated profiles above.
- ✓Department count:consistent with the printed county total (27)
- ✓Career roster total:consistent with the printed county total (2)
- ✓Volunteer roster total:consistent with the printed county total (1,020)
These self-reported totals match the directory’s own printed county-summary page. That is an internal consistency check, not independent verification, and not on-duty staffing.
Roster totals are self-reported and only sum departments that reported a number (a blank survey field is unknown, never zero). Browse Sussex County directory records → · Methodology & sources
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