Washington County Rankings

Washington/County rankings

Fire deaths 2020-2021

Washington's 39 counties are ranked by the Overall Fireground Index — a normalization of the civilian fire-death rate (Washington State Fire Marshal counts 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.

Washington 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	Columbia County4,025 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
2	Ferry County7,543 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
3	Garfield County2,404 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
4	Island County86,478 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
5	Jefferson County33,944 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
6	Lincoln County11,862 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
7	Pend Oreille County14,332 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
8	Wahkiakum County4,800 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
9	Whitman County48,399 pop.	69	0.00	0	limited
10	Franklin County101,238 pop.	65	0.20	1	moderate
11	Douglas County45,795 pop.	61	0.44	1	moderate
12	Kittitas County48,172 pop.	61	0.42	1	moderate
13	King County2,340,211 pop.	58	0.62	72	moderate
14	Kitsap County281,420 pop.	58	0.64	9	moderate
15	Walla Walla County62,068 pop.	58	0.64	2	moderate
16	Lewis County87,049 pop.	57	0.69	3	moderate
17	Snohomish County864,113 pop.	56	0.76	33	moderate
18	Pierce County941,170 pop.	55	0.83	39	moderate
19	Asotin County22,523 pop.	54	0.89	1	moderate
20	Clark County527,269 pop.	54	0.87	23	moderate
21	Adams County21,039 pop.	53	0.95	1	moderate
22	Chelan County81,228 pop.	52	0.98	4	moderate
23	San Juan County18,668 pop.	51	1.07	1	moderate
24	Thurston County302,912 pop.	49	1.19	18	moderate
25	Cowlitz County113,982 pop.	48	1.23	7	moderate
26	Skagit County132,736 pop.	48	1.21	8	moderate
27	Benton County218,190 pop.	47	1.28	14	moderate
28	Spokane County555,947 pop.	47	1.30	36	moderate
29	Yakima County258,523 pop.	46	1.32	17	moderate
30	Whatcom County234,954 pop.	44	1.45	17	moderate
31	Skamania County12,660 pop.	42	1.58	1	moderate
32	Stevens County49,015 pop.	41	1.63	4	moderate
33	Clallam County77,958 pop.	30	2.31	9	moderate
34	Grays Harbor County77,893 pop.	30	2.31	9	moderate
35	Mason County69,632 pop.	30	2.30	8	moderate
36	Grant County104,717 pop.	27	2.48	13	moderate
37	Okanogan County44,942 pop.	16	3.12	7	moderate
38	Klickitat County24,124 pop.	13	3.32	4	moderate
39	Pacific County24,245 pop.	0	4.95	6	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.