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Crescent City: Fire Incidents, California (CA)

2005 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2005 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 65. The highest number of fires - 182 took place in 2017, and the least - 1 in 2011. The data has an increasing trend.


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

Crescent City:	190.6
McKinleyville:	36.0
Arcata:	51.3
Eureka:	2.5
Yreka:	28.6
Fortuna:	1.7

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 5 minutes. This is lower compared to the state median value.


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

Crescent City:	5 minutes
McKinleyville:	6 minutes
Arcata:	6 minutes
Eureka:	6 minutes

36.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 64.0% in the evening. The most fires (16.2%) took place on Sunday, and the least (11.3%) on Thursday.
Based on the 908 incident reports from years 2005 - 2018 most fires (15.5%) took place during July, and the least (3.6%) in December.
Out of all 4,284 cases reported during the years 2005 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (57.1%), Fire (21.2%), and Hazardous Condition (7.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Crescent City, CA
• 2,44657.1%Rescue & EMS
• 90821.2%Fire
• 3157.4%Service Call
• 2836.6%Hazardous Condition
• 1704.0%Good Intent Call
• 1623.8%False Alarm
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (66.3%), and Structure Fires (21.8%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Crescent City, CA
• 60266.3%Outside Fires
• 19821.8%Structure Fires
• 9410.4%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 141.5%Other