NFIRS Data Quality Dashboard


Data Quality Score

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
Bolivar Fire Department 100.00 1
Springfield Fire Department 96.47 2
Pigeon Forge Fire Department 95.59 3
Hardin County Fire Department 94.12 4
Crossville Fire Department 93.14 5
Mount Juliet Fire Department 93.14 6
Brentwood Fire Department 93.08 7
Almaville Volunteer Fire Rescue Department 93.05 8
Oak Ridge Fire Dept 93.00 9
Chattanooga Fire Department 92.98 10
Fire Department Name Data Quality Score Rank
Henderson County Fire Department 93.04 1
Chattanooga Fire Department 91.96 2
Blount County Fire Protection District 90.80 3
Lawrenceburg Fire Department 90.71 4
Collierville Fire and Rescue 90.18 5
Fire Department Name Rank  
Karns Fire Department 1  
Smyrna Fire Department 2  
Putnam Cnty VFD 3  
Williamson Fire and Emergency Services 4  
Paris Fire Dept 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).