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Burlison: Fire Incidents, Tennessee (TN)

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 31. The highest number of reported fires - 52 took place in 2012, and the least - 14 in 2005. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 14 minutes. This is much higher compared to the state median value.


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

Burlison:	14 minutes
Brighton:	9 minutes
Covington:	5 minutes
Munford:	5 minutes
Atoka:	7 minutes
Osceola:	3 minutes
Millington:	6 minutes
Ripley:	6 minutes
Arlington:	6 minutes

27.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 73.0% in the evening. The most fires (18.0%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.3%) on Thursday.
According to the 534 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (12.7%) took place during January, and the least (3.9%) in September.
Out of all 1,744 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (55.0%), Fire (30.6%), and Hazardous Condition (6.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Burlison, TN
• 95955.0%Rescue & EMS
• 53430.6%Fire
• 1136.5%Hazardous Condition
• 694.0%Good Intent Call
• 352.0%False Alarm
• 221.3%Service Call
• 80.5%Severe Weather
• 20.1%Overpressure Rupture
• 20.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (52.4%), and Structure Fires (37.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Burlison, TN
• 28052.4%Outside Fires
• 19837.1%Structure Fires
• 356.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 213.9%Other