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Comfort: Fire Incidents, Texas (TX)

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 45. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 110 took place in 2008, and the least - 19 in 2012. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 12 minutes. This is higher than the Texas median value.


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

Comfort:	12 minutes
Kerrville:	6 minutes
Boerne:	11 minutes
Fredericksburg:	11 minutes
Blanco:	11 minutes
Helotes:	7 minutes
Bulverde:	9 minutes
Canyon Lake:	9 minutes
Castroville:	10 minutes

24.7% incidents where reported in the morning and 75.3% in the evening. The most fires (15.7%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.5%) on Sunday.
Based on the 765 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (12.3%) took place during January, and the least (5.1%) in April.
Out of all 2,217 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (34.5%), Rescue & EMS (28.3%), and Good Intent Call (22.3%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Comfort, TX
• 76534.5%Fire
• 62828.3%Rescue & EMS
• 49522.3%Good Intent Call
• 2099.4%Hazardous Condition
• 703.2%Service Call
• 361.6%False Alarm
• 70.3%Severe Weather
• 50.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (75.4%), and Structure Fires (11.4%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Comfort, TX
• 57775.4%Outside Fires
• 8711.4%Structure Fires
• 8010.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 212.7%Other