Public data sources
Every value in the Virginia 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 Virginia counties and independent cities, 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=51; the 133 county-equivalents sum exactly to the published state total of 8,811,195.
Virginia Department of Health
Visit source ↗Injury & Violence Prevention — Deaths dashboard: unintentional fire/burn deaths (Virginia Vital Statistics) · 2023
All 133 Virginia localities, annual (2019–2023 provided)
Unintentional fire/burn deaths (ICD-10 X00–X09), resident-based, from death certificates (Virginia Vital Statistics). Counts mode, un-suppressed; per-locality counts sum exactly to the statewide totals (2019:75, 2020:87, 2021:88, 2022:101, 2023:57). Death-certificate (vital-statistics) basis differs from fire-incident (VFIRS) counts.
Locality incident sources
Population (Census) and civilian fire deaths (Virginia Vital Statistics, VDH) cover every locality. Incident/response figures are published individually by 8 localities, each with its own definition and reporting year — those locality sources are cited on each locality’s evidence profile. Localities without a public incident source are shown honestly as “Data not publicly available.”
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