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Salado: Fire Incidents, Texas (TX)

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 49. The highest number of reported fires - 86 took place in 2011, and the least - 23 in 2018. The data has a dropping trend.

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


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

Salado:	9 minutes
Belton:	7 minutes
Harker Heights:	6 minutes
Temple:	6 minutes
Jarrell:	7 minutes
Killeen:	6 minutes
Florence:	10 minutes
Georgetown:	7 minutes
Copperas Cove:	5 minutes

25.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 74.5% in the evening. The most fires (16.1%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.7%) on Sunday.
Based on the 825 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (11.8%) took place during July, and the least (5.1%) in April.
Out of all 4,437 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (54.6%), Fire (18.6%), and Good Intent Call (11.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Salado, TX
• 2,42354.6%Rescue & EMS
• 82518.6%Fire
• 51211.5%Good Intent Call
• 2565.8%Hazardous Condition
• 2345.3%Service Call
• 1804.1%False Alarm
• 70.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (64.6%), and Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires (19.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Salado, TX
• 53364.6%Outside Fires
• 16119.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 11814.3%Structure Fires
• 131.6%Other