National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Data
FireCARES uses NFIRS data to calculate community risk. Below are notes on how FireCARES uses NFIRS to generate community risk scores.
According to the NFIRS help desk, there is no public location where you can download the entire NFIRS data set. To obtain NFIRS data, send an email to [email protected]. The data will be sent on CDs/DVDs broken up by year. Only the most recent year includes fire and EMS incidents, all previous years will be filtered to only fire incidents.
buildingfires: NFIRS data filtered to only building fires.
census_block_groups_2010: A geospatial table of the 2010 census block groups. Block group ids are added on the incidentaddress
table as a foreign key in a field called bkgpidfp10. The foreign key ties to the geoid10 field on the census_block_groups_2010 table.
census_block_groups_2000: A geospatial table of the 2000 census block groups. Block group ids are added on the incidentaddress
table as a foreign key in a field called bkgpidfp00. The foreign key ties to the bkgpidfp00 field on the census_block_groups_2000 table.
usgs_stateorterritoryhigh: A high-resolution geospatial table of US States and territories. Data obtained from http://services.nationalmap.gov/arcgis/rest/services/govunits/MapServer/18.
addresses_to_geocode: A staging table for geocoding addresses.
incidentaddress.geom: The geom field is an unprojected geospatial point added to the incidentaddress table that represents the location
of the address. This field has been populated at a national scale, therefore the match quality may vary from address to address.
incidentaddress.bkgpidfp00: The 2000 Census block group, populated by a spatial join with census_block_groups_2000. Can be joined with census_block_groups_2000.bkgpidfp00.
incidentaddress.bkgpidfp10: The 2010 Census block group, populated by a spatial join with census_block_groups_2010. Can be joined with census_block_groups_2010.geoid10.