Corrections

If a personnel count, station inventory, grant total, state fire-death rate, or ranking on PlainFireData looks wrong, report it with enough detail to reproduce the page and compare it with the HIFLD, USFA/NFIRS, or OpenFEMA record for that department or state. The full editorial process is documented in our editorial and corrections policy.

How to report

  1. Report. Email hello@plainfiredata.com or use the contact page with the page URL, the figure that looks off, and what you think it should be.
  2. Verify. Include a link to the HIFLD station record, USFA state table, or OpenFEMA award you think we should match.
  3. Scope. Say whether the issue is a raw federal field, a derived per-capita rate or percentile ranking, a missing registry entry, or a stale data-vintage badge.

What happens next

We verify reports against the published HIFLD, USFA, or FEMA source for that department or state and correct confirmed issues in the canonical database or pipeline so affected pages update together. Material fixes are noted when the affected pages rebuild. PlainFireData is an informational research reference, not emergency, safety, or professional fire-service advice. In an emergency, call 911.

When the figure is correct on our side but the upstream federal release is the latest published file, we will say so and point you to the official record. We mirror published federal extracts and cannot rewrite a department's HIFLD filing on its behalf.

For how figures are derived, see the methodology page. For publisher accountability, see About PlainFireData.

Open Data

Download the compiled fire-department landscape as fire-department-landscape.csv (32,253 departments, same CSV as the homepage Dataset). Underlying federal fields remain public-source; cite PlainFireData when you reuse the compiled table.

Download the fire-department landscape extract cited on this page: fire-department-landscape.csv (HIFLD / USFA / FEMA public records).