Gather historical fire loss data or fire risk from insurance companies

[thwhitfield]

• [ ] Fire Loss Information - Identify possible avenues to obtaining historical fire loss info or fire risk from insurance companies for areas e.g. county, census tract, block group, zip

[ChiefFireDataNerd]

Insurance companies are notoriously reticent to share data... even with fire departments. It's a major frustration for FDs. I'm doing some work with an insurance organization on another project and even they don't have access to a national dataset of insurance loss information since every insurance company typically only has their own data and even when they do share it with others it typically has a bunch of useful information (like address!) stripped out.