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Fire & Life Safety

Leader: APi Group — 16.0% S1 · 26.5% CR3

S1
16.0%
leader
CR3
26.5%
top 3 combined
HHI
326
Unconcentrated
MARKET SIZE
$25B
US

How this is calculated

FORMULA
S1 = APi Group revenue / total revenue = 16.0%
CR3 = APi Group + JCI / Tyco Fire + Cintas = 26.5%
HHI = Σ(share²) = 326 (Unconcentrated (HHI < 1,500))
DENOMINATOR
Revenue — $25B (US)
US fire protection, life safety, and security systems services revenue.
Size from: SDM Top 100 + NFPA
TOP 3 PLAYERS
#1APi Group16.0%
#2JCI / Tyco Fire8.0%
#3Cintas2.5%
METHODOLOGY NOTE
JCI Fire Protection ~$2.0B US (10-K segment, post-Tyco), Cintas Fire Protection ~$625M FY24 (within $1.064B All Other segment, 10-K Note 14), Honeywell US fire/life safety ~$400M (estimate; not separately disclosed within Building Automation segment ~$6.4B globally) divided by $25B US fire/life safety market (SDM Top 100 + NFPA). Reordered Nov 2025: Cintas Fire ($625M) is meaningfully larger than Honeywell's US fire revenue once Building Automation is parsed. [Refreshed Aug 2026: CORRECTION: baseline omitted APi Group, the largest fire & life safety services provider. Top-3 restated to APi/JCI/Cintas; CR3 12.1→26.5. Source: APi Group FY2025 results ($7.9B; US safety services est. ~$4.0B = ~16% of $25B US services denominator); CertaSite + Onyx-Fire acquisitions]
SOURCES
Year: 2026
Geo: US
Firms: 15,000+

Labor economics

REV / EMPLOYEE (leader)
$0.3M
industry avg $0.2M
SG&A % (leader)
25%
of revenue

Johnson Controls FY2024 SG&A 24.7% (parent-level conglomerate; fire-protection segment not broken out)

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Source Quality Hierarchy

Every market has a primary source plus 1–3 validation sources. Revenue numerators come from SEC 10-K filings; denominators validated against the Economic Census where available.

TIER 1Authoritative anchorsGovernment data + SEC filings
US Economic Census (data.census.gov) · SEC EDGAR / Company 10-Ks · BEA Industry Value-Added (FRED) · BLS QCEW · USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries · EIA Refinery Capacity Report · FDA device listings
TIER 2Leading commercial trackersIndustry-standard paid trackers
IDC Semiannual Software Tracker · Gartner Market Share & Magic Quadrant · IBISWorld NAICS reports · StatCounter Global Stats · eMarketer / Insider Intelligence · Synergy Research Group
TIER 3Category specialistsBest-in-class niche authorities
SIPRI (aerospace & defense) · IQVIA (pharma) · TrendForce (semiconductors) · CIMdata (CAD/PLM) · Nilson Report (payments) · Am Law 100 (legal) · ENR Top 500 (A&E) · AM Best (insurance) · SIA (staffing) · Ad Age (agencies) · Barron's / Cerulli (wealth) · Evaluate MedTech · Nielsen Gauge (streaming) · Gridwise (ride-hail) · Bloomberg Second Measure (delivery) · RC Top 100 (roofing) · SDM Top 100 (fire/safety) · Big 4 annual reports · ALM Intelligence (consulting)

Data vintage: Q2 2025 research compilation. Labels updated 2026-Q2. Tier 1 sources refreshed from FY2025 SEC filings where available. For full methodology see the Methodology page.