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Breckenridge: Fire Incidents, Colorado (CO)

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

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 37. The highest number of fires - 72 took place in 2002, and the least - 18 in 2009. The data has a dropping trend.

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


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

Breckenridge:	7 minutes
Vail:	6 minutes
Evergreen:	12 minutes
Golden:	7 minutes
Lakewood:	5 minutes

According to the reports from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire-related yearly casualties is 0. The highest number of reported casualties - 3 took place in 2004, and the lowest - 0 in 2002. The data has a rising trend. The average number of injuries per 1,000 fires is 12. This indicator was the highest - 75 in 2004, and the lowest 0 in 2002. The trend for injuries per 1,000 fires is rising. Compared to the state value the number of injuries per 1,000 incidents is about the same.



Casualties per 1,000 incidents in Breckenridge, CO compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Breckenridge:	11.1
Vail:	16.4
Evergreen:	0.0
Golden:	12.7
Lakewood:	36.1

34.3% incidents where reported in the morning and 65.7% in the evening. The most fires (16.3%) took place on Tuesday, and the least (12.5%) on Monday.
Based on the 630 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (12.9%) took place during July, and the least (5.7%) in April.
Out of all 12,207 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (47.5%), False Alarm (18.2%), and Hazardous Condition (12.3%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Breckenridge, CO
• 5,79547.5%Rescue & EMS
• 2,22018.2%False Alarm
• 1,49912.3%Hazardous Condition
• 1,34711.0%Good Intent Call
• 6725.5%Service Call
• 6305.2%Fire
• 200.2%Overpressure Rupture
• 160.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (64.1%), and Outside Fires (25.6%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Breckenridge, CO
• 40464.1%Structure Fires
• 16125.6%Outside Fires
• 497.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 162.5%Other