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Rochester: Fire Incidents, Washington (WA)

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 106. The highest number of fires - 198 took place in 2004, and the least - 21 in 2012. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 9 minutes. This is higher compared to the state median value.


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

Rochester:	9 minutes
Centralia:	6 minutes
Tenino:	10 minutes
Chehalis:	7 minutes
Tumwater:	7 minutes
Olympia:	7 minutes
Lacey:	6 minutes
Elma:	10 minutes
Yelm:	10 minutes

25.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 74.8% in the evening. The most fires (16.1%) took place on Wednesday, and the least (11.4%) on Thursday.
According to the 1,794 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (20.8%) took place during July, and the least (3.8%) in January.
Out of all 9,618 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (59.3%), Fire (18.7%), and Good Intent Call (10.1%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Rochester, WA
• 5,70759.3%Rescue & EMS
• 1,79418.7%Fire
• 96810.1%Good Intent Call
• 4915.1%Service Call
• 3193.3%False Alarm
• 2913.0%Hazardous Condition
• 390.4%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (51.4%), and Structure Fires (31.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Rochester, WA
• 92351.4%Outside Fires
• 56131.3%Structure Fires
• 22012.3%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 905.0%Other