Bureau of Fire Investigations - Fire Causes
Findings of investigations by the Bureau of Fire Investigations. This data lists the causes of fires found by the Bureau of Fire Investigations. Each record represents a fire related incident investigated by BFI. This dataset contains only closed and completed cases.
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Freshness
The publisher's promise
How the agency that publishes this data says it keeps the data current.
Fresh
- Says it updates
- Annually
- Actually updates about every
- 353.22 days
- Publisher last updated the data
- Sep 14, 2026
Our mirror
Whether our copy of this data is current with the source.
In sync
- We last synced
- Sep 14, 2026, 3:11 PM
- Rows in our copy
- 67,260
- Rows at the source
- 67,260
- Our copy trails the source by
- under a minute
Columns
Each source column, with the name and type we use to store it.
1 of 10 columns carry a concept; 10 carry a description from the publisher. Read the concept column before you join. A column with no concept carries no claim from us, and a name that looks like a key is not one.
| Source field | Display name | What the publisher says it is | Concept | Source type | Stored as | Stored type | Row identifier | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
incident_datetime | Incident_DateTime | Date and time of the incident being investigated | Not bound | Calendar date | incident_datetime | timestamp | — | |
cause_fire_description | Cause_Fire_Description | Category of fire cause | Not bound | Text | cause_fire_description | text | — | |
case_year | Case_Year | Year in which the case originated | Not bound | Number | case_year | numeric | — | |
incident_classification | Incident_Classification | Type of incident | Not bound | Text | incident_classification | text | — | |
battalion | Battalion | Fire battalion in which the incident occurred | Not bound | Text | battalion | text | — | |
borough | Borough | Borough in which the incident occurred | boroughdeclared | Text | borough | text | — | |
case_number | Case Number | Case number, unique for each case year | Not bound | Number | case_number | numeric | — | |
community_district | Community_District | Community District in which the incident occurred | Not bound | Text | community_district | text | — | |
precinct | Precinct |
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Source and attribution
Where this data comes from, which version we hold, and what we changed.
- Source
- https://data.cityofnewyork.us/d/ii3r-svjz
- Version
- Content hash:
b1da48d805d5104433441a8c20a5fe18f611fd7477a2b1c7ea4b24223dc6866f - What we changed
- We did not change the data. We stored it as published.
- Publisher
- codenownyc
- We retrieved it
- Sep 14, 2026, 3:11 PM
Update history
| Started | Kind | Result | Rows written | Produced by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 2026, 10:06 PM | full_replace | success | 67,260 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.73 |
| Aug 24, 2026, 10:20 PM | full_replace | success | 60,835 | codenow-nycmesh-container-oci.jfrog.io/codenow/citytap-pull:0.1.68 |