Built on public data

What FireVerge is

Every year, U.S. fire departments log millions of incidents into the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS), and federal agencies track every large wildfire, air-quality reading, and fire-weather warning. The raw data is public — but it lives in giant government files that few people can open, let alone interpret.

FireVerge does that work for you. We aggregate the most recent five reporting years of national fire data and present it as readable pages: how many fires a place sees, what causes them, how they trend, wildfire risk nearby, and current air quality — in plain language, with no paywall.

What we believe

• Public data should be usable. Government fire data is paid for by the public; it should be readable by the public.
• Plain language beats jargon. Every NFIRS code is translated to its official description — we never show you a raw 111.
• Independent and free. We don't sell your data and we're not affiliated with any agency or vendor.
• Honest about limits. We explain where the data is incomplete or provisional rather than papering over it.

How we do it

FireVerge is data-driven from end to end. We ingest the federal source datasets, normalize places by name and county code, aggregate incidents to the city, ZIP, county, and state level, and compute per-capita rates and a composite safety grade. The full pipeline is documented on our methodology page, and every dataset we use is listed on our data sources page.

Who we are

FireVerge is produced by an independent editorial and data team. We build the pipeline, write the explanations, and are responsible for the accuracy of how public data is presented here. Found an error or have a question? We want to hear it — reach us any time at our contact page.