Public data sources
Every value in the Pennsylvania Fireground Index traces to one of these authoritative public sources. Click any source to verify it yourself.
U.S. Census Bureau
Visit source ↗Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) · 2024
All Pennsylvania 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=42; the 67 counties sum exactly to the published state total of 13,078,751.
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Visit source ↗EDDIE (Enterprise Data Dissemination Informatics Exchange), Bureau of Health Statistics and Registries — Death by County of Residence: 'Fire, smoke, and flames (accidental)' (ICD-10 X00-X09), 2020-2024 · 2024
All 67 Pennsylvania counties; PA resident deaths by county of residence, annual 2020-2024
Residence-based (death-certificate) counts from PA DOH vital statistics via the EDDIE Death query. Underlying-cause category 'Fire, smoke, and flames (accidental)' = ICD-10 X00-X09 (confirmed against PA DOH's ICD reference). NO suppression: EDDIE displays exact integer counts for every county including 0/1/2 (the 'ND' flag applies only to the age-adjusted RATE column, not counts). Per-year county counts reconcile exactly to the statewide totals (2020:144, 2021:174, 2022:189, 2023:152, 2024:156 = 815 over five years). Residence-based (vital-statistics) basis differs from incident-based fire counts (PA Office of the State Fire Commissioner, whose most recent county publication is 2018).
County incident sources
Population (Census) and civilian fire deaths (Pennsylvania Vital Statistics, PA DOH) cover every county. Incident/response figures are published individually by 3 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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