Reference
Protection glossary
Definitions for routed station access, score bands, sources, and limits.
- Adequate band
- Protection values 4 through 6.
- Context hub
- An area page with station inventory and educational context but no area score.
- Drive time
- Estimated road minutes between an address and a selected nearby station.
- HIFLD fire stations
- Public Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data station points.
- Limited band
- Protection values 7 and 8.
- Missing data
- An unavailable required route input that prevents a Protection number.
- Municipal station
- A station record handled without the volunteer name adjustment.
- Protection score
- A 1 to 10 address-level fire station response access signal where lower is stronger.
- Remote band
- Protection values 9 and 10.
- Road miles
- Driving distance along the routed road network.
- Routing
- A road-network calculation of distance and estimated travel time.
- Score polarity
- The direction in which a score becomes stronger or weaker.
- Station type
- A municipal, volunteer, or unknown classification used by FPS-v2.
- Strong band
- Protection values 1 through 3.
- Volunteer signal
- A keyword match where the station name suggests volunteer service.