San Francisco Fire Department Incident Responses

Fire Incidents provides a summary of each non-medical incident responded to by the San Francisco Fire Department. The dataset includes details such as call number, incident number, address, responding unit types, call type, prime situation, actions taken, and property loss. It is maintained by the City of San Francisco and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze property loss amounts across different call types to assess financial impact of incidents.
• Model the relationship between prime situation observations and the actions taken by fire units.
• Map incident addresses to visualize spatial distribution of fire department responses.
• Examine the frequency and mix of unit types dispatched for various call types to optimize resource allocation.

Strengths

• Data is maintained by the authoritative City of San Francisco government organization.
• The data pipeline was updated in March 2024 to improve data quality and efficiency.
• Data is available in multiple machine-readable formats including CSV, JSON, XML, and RDF.

Limitations

• The dataset excludes incidents occurring outside San Francisco city boundaries for certain geographic fields.
• Key quantitative details like total row count and specific column definitions are unknown.
• The description notes a recent pipeline change, which may introduce inconsistencies with historical records.

Provenance

Source

City of San Francisco

Collection Method

Operational records from the San Francisco Fire Department's response system.

Freshness

Last updated March 22, 2026.

Geography

San Francisco, California, USA (incidents outside city boundaries have limited geographic attributes).