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FIRE Number & Coast FIRE

Find your financial-independence number from your spending and a withdrawal-rate assumption, then see whether your current savings alone are already projected to reach it.

The withdrawal rate you choose is a historical estimate (commonly 4%, from the Trinity Study), not a guarantee — actual sustainable withdrawal rates depend on the market returns you actually experience. See the Sequence-of-Returns Risk calculator.
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Your FIRE number

$1,500,000

Implied multiple of annual expenses

25x

Projected value at age 60 (current savings only)

$997,326

Current savings alone fall short by $502,674 — you'd need continued contributions, a higher return, or a later retirement age.

How it works: FIRE number = annual expenses ÷ safe withdrawal rate — the algebraic inverse of the withdrawal rate you choose (a 4% rate implies a 25× multiple). Coast FIRE projects your current savings alone, with no further contributions, forward at your assumed return to see if they're already on track to reach that number.

Limitations: a single constant assumed return, like every other projection on this platform — it does not model market volatility or the order returns arrive in. See the Sequence-of-Returns Risk calculator for that.

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