tensorust/afg-fire-grants-sample

Firefighter Grant Award History: free sample (Tensorust LLC)

Every FEMA firefighter grant since 2005 by department, with the gear and apparatus each one is now due to replace.

Headline: FEMA has made 66,845 Assistance to Firefighters, SAFER and Fire Prevention and Safety awards worth $14.10B to 24,137 departments since FY2005, and the award year tells you when the equipment it bought wears out.

This repository is a free teaser, not the dataset. It holds 25 example rows and a summary table with no names in it. The full file has 66,845 rows and is sold by Tensorust LLC: https://tensorust.com/datasets/afg-fire-grants/.

Files here

file	what it is
sample.csv	25 rows of the full file (the same sample shown on tensorust.com)
summary_by_state.csv	row counts and totals by state across the full file, no entity names (groups with fewer than 3 rows are folded into "Other")

Summary by state (largest groups)

State	rows	Award amount (USD)
PA	6,342	860,259,251
NY	4,218	604,353,442
OH	4,138	785,459,487
AL	3,313	407,071,804
IL	2,832	459,159,554
NC	2,729	460,182,132
CA	2,531	1,214,822,431
MI	2,245	515,976,975
MA	2,068	591,015,567
TX	1,965	546,106,730
NJ	1,912	509,198,384
WI	1,912	221,478,490
TOTAL	66,845	14,100,839,791

Full table: summary_by_state.csv.

What the full file has

• 66,845 rows
• Key fields: award_number, fiscal_year, program, award_type, award_amount_usd, department, state, region, dept_awards, dept_total_usd
• Parquet and CSV, a README with sources, method and limits, and the build script
• Free 25-row sample (no personal contact data)

Coverage: All fire-program awards in the OpenFEMA file, FY2005 to FY2024 (the latest year is partial), 24,137 departments in all states and territories. OpenFEMA file through FY2024; built Nov 6 2026

Columns in the full file

column	meaning
award_number	FEMA EMW award number (the third segment codes the award type)
fiscal_year	Fiscal year
program	FEMA program name
award_type	Decoded award type
award_amount_usd	Federal share, USD
department	Recipient as FEMA lists it
state	State
region	FEMA region
dept_awards	Department's awards in the file
dept_total_usd	Department's total awards, USD
dept_first_fy	First award year
dept_last_fy	Latest award year
years_since_last_award	Years since the latest award
dept_vehicle_awards	Vehicle acquisition awards
dept_vehicle_usd	Vehicle acquisition dollars
dept_last_vehicle_fy	Latest vehicle award year
years_since_vehicle_grant	Years since the latest vehicle award
dept_ops_safety_awards	Operations and safety (equipment) awards
dept_ops_safety_usd	Operations and safety dollars
dept_last_ops_safety_fy	Latest operations and safety award year
years_since_ops_safety_grant	Years since the latest operations and safety award
dept_safer_awards	SAFER staffing awards
dept_safer_usd	SAFER dollars
dept_last_safer_fy	Latest SAFER award year
replacement_windows	Plain-language cycle flags
openfema_id	OpenFEMA record id

Get the full file

tier	price	includes
Territory file	$500	Every award and department in up to 3 states or one FEMA region, with replacement windows for apparatus, gear and SCBA and SAFER cliffs. CSV and Excel.
National file	$2,400	All 66,845 awards and the 24,137-department rollup nationwide with every cycle flag.
Yearly refresh	$5,000 a year	The national file re-run as FEMA posts each AFG, SAFER and FP&S round, with newly funded departments and newly opened replacement windows marked. Internal use, unlimited seats.

Email mattbusel@tensorust.com with the tier and a billing contact, and we will send a proper invoice (ACH or card). The file is delivered once the invoice is paid. Details and the live sample: https://tensorust.com/datasets/afg-fire-grants/. All datasets: https://tensorust.com/datasets/

Method and limits

Load OpenFEMA's Non-Disaster Assistance Firefighter Grants file, keep the fire programs (AFG, AFG supplemental, SAFER, Fire Prevention and Safety, ARRA station construction), decode the award type from the third segment of the EMW award number, key each department on its recipient name plus state, aggregate per department, and set replacement windows: apparatus 15+ years after a vehicle grant, equipment 9 to 16 years after an operations and safety grant, SAFER when the latest SAFER award was 3 or 4 years ago (FY2022 or FY2023), so its 3-year performance period is ending.

Not the line items (FEMA publishes the award total, not what was bought), not every department's purchases (local money does not appear), and not an application or eligibility list. Department names are as FEMA lists them, so one department can appear under two spellings, and FEMA's file has placeholder recipients named DO NOT USE that are kept as published.

Sources

• OpenFEMA Non-Disaster Assistance Firefighter Grants, https://www.fema.gov/api/open/v1/NonDisasterAssistanceFirefighterGrants
• NFPA 1901 (apparatus), NFPA 1851 (10-year turnout gear retirement) and DOT cylinder service life (15 years) for the cycle rules

License

The sample and summary here are free to view, analyze and cite with attribution to "Tensorust LLC, https://tensorust.com/datasets/afg-fire-grants/". The full dataset is licensed separately per tier. No resale or redistribution of Tensorust data without a written license.

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