Advances in fire science and changes in the very things that burn are creating new realities on the front lines of firefighting. It’s important to understand the changes, not only for how they can impact a home or business, but also in how adaptable a community is to the evolving challenges in fire protection.

Verisk’s Public Protection Classification (PPC®) system goes into exhaustive detail, examining the fire protection capabilities of thousands of communities across the United States. Verisk digs into the fine points of fire protection for each community evaluated. The resulting PPC classifications are nine times more predictive of future fire loss than distance to the nearest fire station alone, based on Verisk’s own research. With PPC data, you can better assess fire-suppression abilities in related communities and get a clearer picture of fire risk before issuing a policy.

PPC data sets are available in the following 45 U.S. states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

This free sample is on Florida only.

A data dictionary is included within the User Guide that accompanies the data set. Key fields include the following:

• Tracking number
• State abbreviation
• ZIP code
• City name (postal not political)
• Pre-direction
• Street name
• Post-direction
• Street type
• Low address number
• High address number
• Odd/even/both Indicator
• Multiple record count
• County FIPS
• Public Protection Classification (PPC)
• Dwelling classification (DC)
• Fire Protection Area name
• State specific
• Subscription indicator
• Statistical placement indicator
• Fire station distance band
• Responding fire station name
• Alternative PPC
• Alternative dwelling classification
• Water supply type

Note that PPC is designed to provide predictive fire loss data for typical structure fire problems. It is not intended to predict capabilities for handling more prescriptive conditions, such as wildfires. If you are interested in wildfire data, please see Verisk’s Wildfire Risk Data — FREE sample of FireLine® data offering.

Please contact location-info@verisk.com if you have any questions. You can find more information at verisk.com/PPC .