Rita Fahy (October 4, 1955-July 12, 2023) was an Irish American expert in evacuation modelling and human behaviour in fire.

[3][4] Fahy also made substantial contributions to data collection of human behaviour in fires and ran multiple evacuation investigations, developing one of the first evacuation databases for fire protection engineers.

[5][6] She worked on the NFPA investigation on fatal firefighter injuries in the United States.

She earned her PhD in Human Behaviour in Fire at the University of Ulster, graduating in 2000.

[1] She was involved in lecturing in the IMFSE Human Behavior in Fire course at Lund University.

[12] [13] Further, she made majior academic contribtuion in teaching and research to debunk the myths surrounding the panic concept in evacuation and for her pioneering work in developing the first databese for building evacuations.