NFIRS Data Quality Dashboard


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Data Quality Score - a mathematically derived value that ranks the following metrics of data quality into a single score.
34(Data Quality Score) =  1(Location) + 1(Area of Origin) + 1(Detector Presence) + 1(Equipment Involved) + 4(Fire Ignition Factor) + 4(Heat Source) + 4(Item First Ignited) + 1(Total Loss) + 14(Valid Incidents)

Fire Department Name Data Quality Score Rank
Henderson County Fire Department 98.42 1
Springfield Fire Department 97.06 2
Bedford County Fire Department 96.90 3
Covington Fire Department 96.89 4
Lexington Fire Department 96.85 5
Oak Ridge Fire Department 96.75 6
Lincoln County Volunteer Fire Rescue 96.67 7
Limestone Volunteer Fire Department 96.64 8
Athens Fire Department 96.57 9
Chattanooga Fire Department 96.56 10
Fire Department Name Data Quality Score Rank
Henderson County Fire Department 96.61 1
Chattanooga Fire Department 96.13 2
Blount County Fire Protection District 95.55 3
Bedford County Fire Department 94.92 4
West Polk County Fire Rescue 94.47 5
Fire Department Name Rank  
Limestone Volunteer Fire Department 1  
Dyersburg Fire Department 2  
Rural Metro Fire Department 3  
Dallas Bay VFD 4  
Lexington Fire Department 5  

To qualify for any of these superlatives, a fire department must have had an average of 12 incidents during the study period (1 year for top ten, 2 years for most improvement, and 10 years for ten year data quality).