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
Henderson County Fire Department (39713)
98.35
1
Covington Fire Department (84213)
97.33
2
Bedford County Fire Department (02713)
97.06
3
Springfield Fire Department (74263)
97.06
4
Lexington Fire Department (39213)
96.85
5
Oak Ridge Fire Department (01442)
96.75
6
Maryville Fire Department (05326)
96.71
7
Limestone Volunteer Fire Department (90821)
96.71
8
Athens Fire Department (54313)
96.62
9
Lincoln County Volunteer Fire Rescue (52731)
96.60
10
Fire Department Name
Data Quality Score
Rank
Henderson County Fire Department (39713)
96.63
1
Chattanooga Fire Department (33512)
96.13
2
Blount County Fire Protection District (05151)
95.55
3
Jackson County Central Volunteer Fire Department (44291)
95.08
4
Bedford County Fire Department (02713)
94.96
5
Fire Department Name
Rank
Limestone Volunteer Fire Department (90821)
1
Dyersburg Fire Department (23312)
2
Rural Metro Fire Department (47832)
3
Bristol Fire Dept (82412)
4
Dallas Bay VFD (33621)
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).
