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Oak Grove: Fire Incidents, Kentucky (KY)

2002 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 48. The highest number of fires - 90 took place in 2007, and the least - 9 in 2005. The data has a decreasing trend.


The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Oak Grove, KY compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)

Oak Grove:	60.3
Hopkinsville:	52.9
Russellville:	86.2
Princeton:	50.0
Fairdealing:	1.6

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 7 minutes. This is close to the Kentucky median value.


The median response time in Oak Grove, KY compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Oak Grove:	7 minutes
Hopkinsville:	6 minutes
Cadiz:	13 minutes
Russellville:	5 minutes
Greenville:	11 minutes

30.3% incidents where reported in the morning and 69.7% in the evening. The most fires (16.2%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.0%) on Sunday.
Based on the 814 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (10.7%) took place during March, and the least (4.8%) in December.
Out of all 4,876 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (51.7%), Fire (16.7%), and Good Intent Call (16.3%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Oak Grove, KY
• 2,51951.7%Rescue & EMS
• 81416.7%Fire
• 79316.3%Good Intent Call
• 4028.2%Hazardous Condition
• 1903.9%False Alarm
• 1453.0%Service Call
• 80.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (35.9%), and Structure Fires (30.2%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Oak Grove, KY
• 29235.9%Outside Fires
• 24630.2%Structure Fires
• 21226.0%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 647.9%Other