NFIRS Data Quality Report
National Data Quality Details
Excludes Abbreviated Reporting Incidents
August 19, 2005
12:56 PM
2004 NFIRS Data
United States Fire Administration
National Fire Data Center
WHERE: state != ''
National
(669,135 Fires)
Field Null/Blank Zeros (Other) Unknown
Incident Type (Other Fire) N/A 5.65 N/A
Property Loss 33.24 42.43 N/A
Property Use* 2.45 1.81 3.18
Area of Fire Origin 1.78 2.51 12.04
Heat Source 1.47 4.76 36.92
Item First Ignited 1.57 5.07 34.34
Ignition Factor #1 21.67 2.02 12.27
Cause of Ignition N/A 8.21 (under investigation) 19.62
Wildland Fire Cause N/A 0.43 2.73
Human Factors Contributing #1 25.88 N/A N/A
Age (Was a Factor) 76.5 N/A N/A
Equipment Involved in Ignition 54.96 0.37 3.2
Casualties Per 100 Fires FF Casualties Per 100 Fires Casualty DQ Flag
Casualties 2.21 1.31 (G)
*Includes NNN code for blank/null category
Overall Data Quality Rating = 2.14
Version 4.1 Data Quality Rating = 2.22
Version 5.0 Data Quality Rating = 2.89
Base Data Quality Rating = 0.46
Fire modules used for DQ rating = 429,583