Pennsylvania County Rankings

Fire deaths 2020-2021

Pennsylvania's 67 counties are ranked by the Overall Fireground Index — a normalization of the civilian fire-death rate (Pennsylvania 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.

Pennsylvania 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	Forest County6,601 pop.	71	0.00	0	limited
2	Montour County18,115 pop.	71	0.00	0	limited
3	Snyder County39,627 pop.	71	0.00	0	limited
4	Sullivan County5,927 pop.	71	0.00	0	limited
5	Centre County159,805 pop.	68	0.25	2	moderate
6	Cumberland County275,516 pop.	67	0.36	5	moderate
7	Chester County560,745 pop.	66	0.46	13	moderate
8	Huntingdon County43,359 pop.	66	0.46	1	moderate
9	Northampton County322,989 pop.	66	0.43	7	moderate
10	Delaware County584,882 pop.	65	0.51	15	moderate
11	Franklin County159,285 pop.	65	0.50	4	moderate
12	Warren County37,373 pop.	65	0.54	1	moderate
13	Montgomery County879,190 pop.	64	0.61	27	moderate
14	Adams County107,914 pop.	62	0.74	4	moderate
15	Wyoming County25,771 pop.	62	0.78	1	moderate
16	Beaver County165,540 pop.	61	0.85	7	moderate
17	Butler County199,341 pop.	61	0.90	9	moderate
18	Dauphin County293,029 pop.	61	0.89	13	moderate
19	Lancaster County563,293 pop.	61	0.85	24	high
20	Lehigh County385,655 pop.	61	0.83	16	moderate
21	Perry County46,816 pop.	61	0.85	2	moderate
22	Bucks County650,131 pop.	60	0.92	30	moderate
23	Allegheny County1,231,814 pop.	58	1.12	69	moderate
24	Erie County267,750 pop.	58	1.12	15	moderate
25	Berks County439,117 pop.	57	1.18	26	moderate
26	Columbia County66,012 pop.	57	1.21	4	moderate
27	Lebanon County145,319 pop.	57	1.24	9	moderate
28	Wayne County51,419 pop.	57	1.17	3	moderate
29	York County471,240 pop.	57	1.19	28	high
30	Jefferson County43,367 pop.	55	1.38	3	moderate
31	Lawrence County84,233 pop.	54	1.42	6	moderate
32	Washington County210,434 pop.	54	1.43	15	moderate
33	Clinton County37,865 pop.	53	1.58	3	moderate
34	Philadelphia County1,573,916 pop.	53	1.50	118	high
35	Susquehanna County38,100 pop.	53	1.57	3	moderate
36	Lycoming County113,236 pop.	52	1.59	9	moderate
37	Mercer County108,140 pop.	52	1.66	9	moderate
38	Schuylkill County144,523 pop.	52	1.66	12	moderate
39	Monroe County166,523 pop.	51	1.68	14	moderate
40	Clearfield County78,132 pop.	50	1.79	7	moderate
41	Armstrong County63,679 pop.	49	1.88	6	moderate
42	Pike County62,376 pop.	49	1.92	6	moderate
43	Indiana County82,953 pop.	48	1.93	8	moderate
44	Lackawanna County216,859 pop.	47	2.03	22	moderate
45	Carbon County65,743 pop.	46	2.13	7	moderate
46	Fayette County123,941 pop.	46	2.10	13	moderate
47	Luzerne County331,379 pop.	45	2.23	37	moderate
48	Mifflin County45,935 pop.	45	2.18	5	moderate
49	Northumberland County90,027 pop.	45	2.22	10	moderate
50	Westmoreland County350,935 pop.	45	2.22	39	moderate
51	Blair County120,269 pop.	44	2.33	14	moderate
52	Cambria County130,108 pop.	44	2.31	15	moderate
53	Union County42,159 pop.	43	2.37	5	moderate
54	Venango County49,476 pop.	43	2.43	6	moderate
55	Tioga County40,698 pop.	42	2.46	5	moderate
56	Bedford County47,643 pop.	41	2.52	6	moderate
57	Clarion County36,855 pop.	39	2.71	5	moderate
58	Greene County33,960 pop.	37	2.94	5	moderate
59	Somerset County72,134 pop.	35	3.05	11	moderate
60	Crawford County82,089 pop.	31	3.41	14	moderate
61	McKean County39,478 pop.	29	3.55	7	moderate
62	Bradford County59,699 pop.	28	3.69	11	moderate
63	Elk County30,124 pop.	24	3.98	6	moderate
64	Juniata County23,395 pop.	21	4.27	5	moderate
65	Cameron County4,348 pop.	17	4.60	1	moderate
66	Fulton County14,452 pop.	6	5.54	4	moderate
67	Potter County15,993 pop.	0	10.00	8	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.