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Teays Valley: Fire Incidents, West Virginia (WV)

2002 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 6. The highest number of reported fires - 14 took place in 2015, and the least - 0 in 2013. The data has an increasing trend.

The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Teays Valley, WV compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)
Teays Valley:	4.8
Hurricane:	93.8
Nitro:	89.7
Cross Lanes:	64.7
Dunbar:	32.3
South Charleston:	38.8
Charleston:	174.3
Huntington:	94.2

38.7% incidents where reported in the morning and 61.3% in the evening. The most fires (20.8%) took place on Saturday, and the least (8.5%) on Tuesday.
Based on the 106 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.2%) took place during December, and the least (2.8%) in November.
Out of all 432 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Service Call (48.4%), Fire (24.5%), and Hazardous Condition (11.1%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Teays Valley, WV
• 20948.4%Good Intent Call
• 10624.5%Fire
• 4811.1%Service Call
• 4610.6%False Alarm
• 143.2%Hazardous Condition
• 81.9%Rescue & EMS
• 10.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (77.4%), and Outside Fires (12.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Teays Valley, WV
• 8277.4%Structure Fires
• 1312.3%Outside Fires
• 87.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 32.8%Other