Red dots are the city's fire stations. The circles around them show how far a fire truck can actually get within the national response-time target. The glowing patches show where fires happen most. Anything outside the circles is a neighbourhood where help arrives late. Pick a city from the dropdown above, or place a new station on the map and watch the numbers change.
India's national target: a fire truck should arrive within 5 to 7 minutes. The research measured 1,75,056 real drive times in city traffic and found 5 minutes equals roughly 2 km from a station, and 7 minutes roughly 3 km. The circles on the map use these distances.
Where should the next fire station go? The full FireGrid product computes the best locations automatically. Here you can try it by hand and watch the coverage numbers respond.
City plans usually measure distance as the crow flies (red). But fire trucks drive on roads, so the area they truly cover is about 30% smaller (green). That difference is real neighbourhoods without timely protection.
*The fire pattern shown here is an illustration based on the published Nagpur research finding that fires cluster in the dense city centre. A real deployment uses the city's own fire brigade records.
| Rule | Stations needed | Missing |
|---|---|---|
| Town-planning rule: 1 station per 2 lakh people | - | - |
| Fire-service rule: 1 station per 10 km² | - | - |
| This research: 1 station per 30 km²† | - | - |
†India's town-planning rulebook (URDPFI) counts people; the fire-service advisory body (SFAC) counts area, and the two disagree. This research reconciled them with real drive-time data into one practical standard: one station for every 30 km², placed so no point is more than 3 km (7 minutes) away.