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Tequesta: Fire Incidents, Florida (FL)

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 19. The highest number of reported fires - 29 took place in 2015, and the least - 7 in 2018. The data has a decreasing trend.

The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Tequesta, FL compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)
Tequesta:	21.0
Jupiter:	3.0
Hobe Sound:	18.7
Palm Beach Gardens:	2.0
North Palm Beach:	17.1
Lake Park:	47.7
Riviera Beach:	39.6
Port Salerno:	1.0
Palm Beach:	41.6

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire-related yearly casualties is 1. The highest number of reported casualties - 6 took place in 2018, and the lowest - 0 in 2002. The data has a growing trend.
29.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.6% in the evening. The most fires (17.5%) took place on Monday, and the least (10.0%) on Friday.
Based on the 320 fire incidents from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (10.9%) took place during August, and the least (5.9%) in November.
Out of all 8,211 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (70.5%), Hazardous Condition (7.3%), and False Alarm (7.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Tequesta, FL
• 5,78870.5%Rescue & EMS
• 5977.3%Hazardous Condition
• 5937.2%False Alarm
• 4755.8%Good Intent Call
• 4165.1%Service Call
• 3203.9%Fire
• 100.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (42.5%), and Structure Fires (40.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Tequesta, FL
• 13642.5%Outside Fires
• 12940.3%Structure Fires
• 4213.1%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 134.1%Other