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Mattapoisett: Fire Incidents, Massachusetts (MA)

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

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 21. The highest number of reported fires - 32 took place in 2015, and the least - 11 in 2014. The data has a decreasing trend.

The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Mattapoisett, MA compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)
Mattapoisett:	32.5
Fairhaven:	30.2
Acushnet:	21.7
New Bedford:	46.5
Rochester:	13.4
Dartmouth:	22.3
Wareham:	46.6
Freetown:	4.5
East Falmouth:	53.5

30.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.0% in the evening. The most fires (17.9%) took place on Friday, and the least (11.3%) on Wednesday.
Based on the 363 fire incidents from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (13.2%) took place during April, and the least (3.6%) in October.
Out of all 4,744 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Hazardous Condition (39.0%), False Alarm (21.1%), and Service Call (15.1%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Mattapoisett, MA
• 1,85039.0%Hazardous Condition
• 1,00221.1%False Alarm
• 71415.1%Service Call
• 4008.4%Rescue & EMS
• 3637.7%Fire
• 2254.7%Good Intent Call
• 1603.4%Severe Weather
• 260.5%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (32.2%), and Other (29.2%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Mattapoisett, MA
• 11732.2%Structure Fires
• 10629.2%Other
• 9325.6%Outside Fires
• 4712.9%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires