🔥 Retirement Planning

FIRE Calculator

🌐 Web app + 📊 Excel workbook

Estimate your FIRE number, projected retirement timeline, and portfolio longevity — based on your own numbers and the 4% Rule. One purchase gets you both: the web app and the same calculator as an Excel file you keep.

$9.99one-time payment · instant access
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🔥 FIRE Calculator

Sample result — Age 32, $55K saved, $60K income

Tap ƒ to see the formula.

Your FIRE Number
$1.14M
$40.0K/yr needed ÷ 3.5% withdrawal rate
FIRE Age
58 yrs
Years to FIRE
26 yrs
Portfolio lasts
60+ yrs
Monthly savings
$1,000
Current progress
5%
Savings rate
20%

📊Also included: the Excel workbook — the same inputs and these results, plus Goal Mode, Life Events and Monte Carlo, all as live formulas. Change a blue cell and everything recalculates.

Web app preview
FIRE inputs
Start with your own numbers — age, savings, income, expenses, debt and retirement plan.
FIRE number, results and withdrawal scenarios
FIRE number $1.14M, reached at age 58 — compare 3% to 4.5% withdrawal side by side.
Formula popup for Years to FIRE
Tap ƒ next to any result to see how it's calculated — 26 years to FIRE, step by step.
Portfolio growth and drawdown charts
Watch your portfolio grow until it crosses your FIRE number at age 58 — then see how long it lasts in retirement.
Year-by-year breakdown table
Every year until FIRE, side by side — copy it to Excel or Google Sheets as a live sheet: change any input there and every year updates.
Coast FIRE
Coast FIRE: with no new savings, $55K is projected to reach $1.16M by age 77.
Retire earlier goal mode
Want to retire at 45 instead of 58? See the savings it would take — and test changes live.
Goal comparison chart
Your current plan vs the goal plan — side by side, all the way to age 45.
Life events modeling
Add a career slowdown, a raise, a home purchase — FIRE moves from 58 to 67.
Life events and goal age
With those life events, see the income it would take to retire by 45: $108,869/yr.
Monte Carlo setup
Monte Carlo: run 1,000 random market scenarios on up to 3 plans at once.
Monte Carlo results
Base plan survives 78% of scenarios, with life events 75% — retiring at 45 only 2%.
Also included · Excel workbook

The same calculator, as an Excel file you keep

Excel workbook — Inputs sheet with the live result beside the inputs
InputsChange any blue cell — the live result beside it updates right away.
Excel workbook — Dashboard with FIRE number, key results, withdrawal-rate scenarios and Coast FIRE
DashboardFIRE number, key results, withdrawal-rate scenarios and Coast FIRE.
Excel workbook — Year-by-Year table, FIRE reached in year 26
Year-by-YearEvery year until FIRE — each cell is a live formula you can click to check.
Excel workbook — Goal Mode, savings needed to retire at 45
Goal ModePick a target age — see the savings it would take to retire at 45.
Excel workbook — Life Events with a chart of the plan with and without events
Life EventsAdd a career slowdown, a raise, a home purchase — FIRE moves from 58 to 67.
Excel workbook — Monte Carlo results for three plans
Monte Carlo1,000 random market scenarios for your base plan, your goal age and your life events.

…and more: portfolio charts, the retirement drawdown table, Goal Mode options for changing your income or several inputs, plus a built-in "How it works" guide.

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What's inside

A complete view of your timeline

Based on the 4% Rule · Trinity Study (1998). All of this is in both the web app and the Excel workbook.

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FIRE Number

Estimate how much you need to retire — based on your withdrawal rate and retirement expenses.

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Growth Chart & Year-by-Year Table

See how your portfolio grows each year until it hits your FIRE number — as a chart and as a full year-by-year table.

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Coast FIRE

Find out if you can stop saving now and let compound interest do the rest.

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Retire at Your Target Age

Set a goal retirement age and see exactly what needs to change to get there.

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Life Events Modeling

Add salary raises, career breaks, or big expenses and see how your FIRE timeline shifts.

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Monte Carlo Simulation

Run 1,000 random scenarios to see the probability your portfolio survives 40 years.

Inputs

Every input that matters, already laid out

Adjust each input to your own situation — your age, savings, withdrawal rate and life events — and see how each scenario plays out. The same inputs are already laid out in both versions — nothing to set up.

📊 Your current situation

  • Current age & current savings
  • Annual income (after tax)
  • Annual expenses (current)
  • Pre-FIRE investment return
  • Post-FIRE investment return
  • Current debt — balance, interest rate & monthly payment

🏖️ Retirement plan

  • Annual expenses in retirement
  • Withdrawal rate (3%–4.5%)
  • Other income in retirement
  • Target retirement age (goal mode)
  • Life events (raises, breaks, lump sums)
See the math

Change any value. See how it's calculated.

Both versions start with typical values already filled in — type over any of them, and check how each result is worked out.

🌐 Web app
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Change any pre-filled value

Age, savings, income, expenses, investment returns, withdrawal rate — type over any starting value to match your own plan.

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See the formula

Tap ƒ next to a result, a table column or a chart line to see how it's calculated, step by step.

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Copy table with formulas

Paste your inputs, results and the full year-by-year table into Excel or Google Sheets — change any input there and everything recalculates.

📊 Excel workbook Also included
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Edit any blue cell

Type any number you like — values are used exactly as you type them, and every number in the workbook updates.

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Click a cell, see its formula

Every result is a live formula — click any result cell and the formula shows in the formula bar.

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Nothing locked

Change or extend any formula. The "How it works" sheet explains each part and the assumptions behind it.

Yours to keep

Not a one-time result. Your own calculator.

Buy once and use both versions as often as you like — run every scenario you need.

🌐 Web app
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Use it online

Open your link in any browser and start right away.

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Install it, use it offline

Install once on your phone or computer, then use it anywhere — even with no internet.

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Save as new file

Keep each scenario separately — 3.5% vs 4% withdrawal, retire at 45 vs 50.

Desktop & Android
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Share it

Send a scenario to your partner or advisor.

📊 Excel workbook Also included
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A file on your computer

The .xlsx is yours to keep — open it any time, no internet needed.

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One copy per scenario

Save a copy for each plan — 3.5% vs 4% withdrawal, retire at 45 vs 50 — and compare them side by side.

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Open it in the app you use

Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets or LibreOffice.

🔒 No account, no subscription — your data stays on your device.

Ready to explore your numbers?

Enter your numbers and see your FIRE plan in a clear, easy-to-understand format.

$9.99 · one-time payment
Web appExcel workbook (.xlsx)
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