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Cortez: Fire Incidents, Colorado (CO)

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 115. The highest number of reported fires - 154 took place in 2002, and the least - 65 in 2013. The data has a decreasing trend.


The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Cortez, CO compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)

Cortez:	143.0
Durango:	55.5
Montrose:	83.0

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


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

Cortez:	9 minutes
Durango:	10 minutes
Ignacio:	11 minutes
Bayfield:	12 minutes
Pagosa Springs:	11 minutes
Montrose:	8 minutes

26.3% incidents where reported in the morning and 73.7% in the evening. The most fires (15.8%) took place on Wednesday, and the least (12.6%) on Friday.
Based on the 1,950 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (18.2%) took place during July, and the least (3.8%) in November.
Out of all 10,857 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (66.6%), Fire (18.0%), and Hazardous Condition (5.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Cortez, CO
• 7,23266.6%Rescue & EMS
• 1,95018.0%Fire
• 5635.2%Hazardous Condition
• 4614.2%Good Intent Call
• 4183.9%False Alarm
• 2031.9%Service Call
• 180.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (62.8%), and Structure Fires (22.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Cortez, CO
• 1,22562.8%Outside Fires
• 43022.1%Structure Fires
• 1668.5%Other
• 1296.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires