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167K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.6K upvotes, which works out to 10 per 1,000 members.

10peak upvotes per 1,000 members
167Kmembers
1.6Kbest post
259most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

39% 32% 10% 9%
Text 39% Question 32% Image 10% Video 9% Gallery 7% Link 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

General Discussion 130 Ask A Firefighter 63 Tools/Equipment/PPE 20 Photos 19 Videos 18 Career / Full Time 8 News 7 Health/Fitness/Cancer Awareness 5 Special Operations/Rescue/USAR 4 EMS/Medical 4

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Every life is worth saving

↑ 1.6K 💬 28 image 2026

Next year marks the 150th anniversary for my family in the fire service. Here past and present collide. I’m the 15th family member.

↑ 821 💬 54 image 2026

9/11 25th Anniversary Stair Climb

↑ 483 💬 18 gallery 2026

9/11 search and rescue search

↑ 412 💬 24 image 2026

Another Volunteer house bites the dust.

↑ 392 💬 167 image 2026

German firefighters Stuttgart honoring FDNY with a 9/11 memorial stair climb

↑ 383 💬 6 video 2026

New Suspenders my Coworker Made Me

↑ 367 💬 51 image 2026

Local Firefighters Photographed Last Night. Boys were at it for 8 hours...

↑ 365 💬 18 gallery 2026

Quickest response in fire dept history

↑ 314 💬 18 image 2026

USAG Rheinland-Phalz Engine

↑ 294 💬 57 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Firefighting, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/Firefighting have?
r/Firefighting has about 167K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.6K upvotes, which is 10 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Firefighting?
"Every life is worth saving" reached 1.6K upvotes and 28 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Firefighting.
What subreddits are similar to r/Firefighting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/SpaceXBets, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI.
What kind of posts do best on r/Firefighting?
Of the posts we hold, 39% are text posts and 32% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Firefighting?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 01:00 UTC (517 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 22:00 UTC (226 avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (210 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Firefighting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Firefighting has 161 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Firefighting, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.