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Fairview: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

2003 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 47. The highest number of fire incidents - 85 took place in 2006, and the least - 11 in 2008. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 8 minutes. This is higher than the North Carolina median value.


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

Fairview:	8 minutes
Swannanoa:	8 minutes
Fletcher:	7 minutes
Black Mountain:	6 minutes
Asheville:	4 minutes
Lake Lure:	10 minutes
Hendersonville:	7 minutes
Weaverville:	7 minutes
Old Fort:	11 minutes

26.7% incidents where reported in the morning and 73.3% in the evening. The most fires (16.8%) took place on Sunday, and the least (11.5%) on Tuesday.
According to the 757 fire incidents from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (17.0%) took place during March, and the least (3.6%) in June.
Out of all 4,271 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (42.6%), Fire (17.7%), and Service Call (12.0%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Fairview, NC
• 1,82142.6%Rescue & EMS
• 75717.7%Fire
• 51312.0%Service Call
• 44210.3%Hazardous Condition
• 43910.3%Good Intent Call
• 1503.5%False Alarm
• 1353.2%Severe Weather
• 120.3%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (67.6%), and Outside Fires (23.0%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Fairview, NC
• 51267.6%Structure Fires
• 17423.0%Outside Fires
• 395.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 324.2%Other