New Jersey County Rankings

New Jersey/County rankings

Fire deaths 2020-2021

New Jersey's 21 counties are ranked by the Overall Fireground Index — a normalization of the civilian fire-death rate (New Jersey Vital Statistics 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.

New Jersey counties 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	Somerset County357,467 pop.	82	0.22	4	moderate
2	Hunterdon County131,708 pop.	77	0.30	2	moderate
3	Monmouth County647,520 pop.	68	0.46	15	moderate
4	Bergen County978,641 pop.	66	0.49	24	moderate
5	Morris County523,053 pop.	65	0.50	13	moderate
6	Middlesex County890,119 pop.	62	0.56	25	moderate
7	Atlantic County279,114 pop.	57	0.64	9	moderate
8	Cape May County93,875 pop.	57	0.64	3	moderate
9	Gloucester County311,783 pop.	57	0.64	10	moderate
10	Ocean County666,434 pop.	56	0.66	22	moderate
11	Hudson County736,185 pop.	55	0.68	25	moderate
12	Essex County881,527 pop.	53	0.70	31	moderate
13	Camden County533,988 pop.	48	0.79	21	moderate
14	Passaic County526,597 pop.	48	0.80	21	moderate
15	Union County594,160 pop.	47	0.81	24	moderate
16	Burlington County475,515 pop.	35	1.01	24	moderate
17	Warren County112,031 pop.	32	1.07	6	moderate
18	Mercer County392,138 pop.	29	1.12	22	moderate
19	Salem County65,874 pop.	23	1.21	4	moderate
20	Cumberland County155,678 pop.	19	1.28	10	moderate
21	Sussex County147,444 pop.	15	1.36	10	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.