Spotsylvania County
Ranks 66th of 133 Virginia localities.
Higher score = lower civilian fire-death rate.
- Fire-death rate (5-year)
- 1.18
- per 100,000 residents / yr
- Civilian fire deaths
- 9
- 2019-2023 total
- Population
- 152,021
- 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 | 152,021 | U.S. Census Bureau — Population Estimates Program (PEP), Vintage 2024 (July 1, 2024) (2024) (opens in a new tab) |
| Civilian fire deaths (5-year) | 9 (2019-2023) | Virginia Department of Health — Injury & Violence Prevention — Deaths dashboard: unintentional fire/burn deaths (Virginia Vital Statistics) (2023) (opens in a new tab) Civilian fire deaths (unintentional, ICD-10 X00-X09) from Virginia Vital Statistics, resident-based. |
| Civilian fire deaths per 100,000 (5-yr avg annual) | 1.18 per 100kscored | Virginia Department of Health — Injury & Violence Prevention — Deaths dashboard: unintentional fire/burn deaths (Virginia Vital Statistics) (2023) (opens in a new tab) Average annual civilian fire deaths per 100,000, computed from Virginia Vital Statistics deaths ÷ Census population. |
| Fire/EMS incident responses | Data not publicly available | No locality-published incident/response figure found in public sources. |
| Civilian fire injuries | Data not publicly available | Data not publicly available. No authoritative per-locality public dataset; NFIRS/VFIRS is not published as locality injury totals and NFPA publishes only national estimates. (investigated: VFIRS/VDFP, NFPA, USFA, locality annual reports) |
| Firefighter injuries | Data not publicly available | Data not publicly available. Only national NFPA survey estimates exist; not published per locality. (investigated: NFPA, USFA, locality annual reports) |
| Fire dollar loss | Data not publicly available | Data not publicly available. Not itemized per locality in public reports; requires VFIRS raw data or a records request. (investigated: VFIRS/VDFP, locality annual reports) |
Data confidence
Confidence reflects source authority, how many public metrics exist, and how statistically reliable the outcome data is — not whether this locality reports like any other.
- Population (U.S. Census) and civilian fire deaths (Virginia Department of Health, Virginia Vital Statistics) are both from authoritative public sources.
- No locality-published incident/response figure was found in public sources.
- A moderate five-year fire-death count (9) supports a reasonably stable rate.
Fire-death trend
Published civilian fire deaths by year, 2019-2023. Counts are small, so read alongside Data Confidence.
Civilian fire deaths by year
Virginia Vital Statistics (VDH) · 2019-2023Civilian fire deaths by year — 2019: 2, 2020: 1, 2021: 0, 2022: 5, 2023: 1.
9 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.
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