Interactive tools enabling fire data analytics
NFPA’s Data Solutions Portal is a growing suite of online platforms for fire and safety officials, researchers, and the public to explore and analyze data in new and innovative ways. The tools below were developed by NFPA data scientists and researchers using a variety of techniques designed to both help analyze specific problems and showcase different ways that data can be used in the community.
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This research tool, created by NFPA and project consultant Arup, enables inspectors and engineers to conduct initial fire risk assessments of high-rise buildings that may have combustible façade systems.
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PIP is an interactive tool designed to help building inspectors evaluate and compare the inspection priorities of different buildings. PIP seeks to replicate the assessments of an experienced fire inspector by drawing on data from seven building attributes combined with a machine learning algorithm trained on data provided by over 100 experienced building inspectors.
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This data visualization tool provides users with the unique ability to explore and compare two national data sets comprised of fire incident and related data. The tool provides a dynamic platform that maps historical data on fires across the United States using NFPA’s custom geolocation of information from the U.S. Fire Administration’s National Fire Incident Reporting System. The same platform also supports NFPA’s Remembering When program (fire and fall prevention program for older adults) by identifying and comparing locations with elevated risks based upon data from the Centers for Disease Control and the US Census Bureau.
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This interactive platform is based on the NFPA Needs Assessment of the U.S. Fire Service (2001-2015) and allows users to create customizable data reports and state fact sheets with a focus on firefighter training, fitness and health, personal protective equipment, apparatus, and community risk reduction activities.
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NFPA is testing this tool to allow fire departments to see how their own department compares to similar departments. The tool uses a combination of fire department and, fire experience survey data with census demographic information to enable departments to see how their resources and response incidents compare to similar departments across the country. Note: Access is currently restricted to select fire departments.
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Contact us
Please e-mail us research@nfpa.org with feedback, questions, and suggestions. If you want to work with NFPA develop new tools and insights using your own data, let us know! We are always looking for new project ideas.