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Terra Alta: Fire Incidents, West Virginia (WV)

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

Based on the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 20. The highest number of reported fires - 36 took place in 2012, and the least - 9 in 2017. The data has a growing trend.

32.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 67.5% in the evening. The most fires (16.4%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.3%) on Thursday.
According to the 317 incident reports from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (14.2%) took place during April, and the least (4.7%) in July.
Out of all 1,007 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Hazardous Condition (35.0%), Fire (31.5%), and Rescue & EMS (24.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Terra Alta, WV
• 35235.0%Hazardous Condition
• 31731.5%Fire
• 24424.2%Rescue & EMS
• 313.1%Good Intent Call
• 292.9%Service Call
• 272.7%False Alarm
• 40.4%Severe Weather
• 20.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (61.8%), and Outside Fires (23.0%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Terra Alta, WV
• 19661.8%Structure Fires
• 7323.0%Outside Fires
• 4514.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 30.9%Other