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Stanford: Fire Incidents, California (CA)

2009 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2009 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 29. The highest number of fires - 44 took place in 2011, and the least - 15 in 2010. The data has a growing trend.

The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Stanford, CA compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)
Stanford:	21.7
Palo Alto:	18.5
Menlo Park:	21.6
Atherton:	10.3
East Palo Alto:	20.3
Los Altos Hills:	22.2
Mountain View:	5.5
Woodside:	83.2
Los Altos:	11.9

29.8% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.2% in the evening. The most fires (20.4%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.5%) on Tuesday.
According to the 289 fire incidents from years 2009 - 2018 most fires (15.6%) took place during June, and the least (3.1%) in December.
Out of all 5,342 cases reported during the years 2009 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (45.3%), Good Intent Call (29.9%), and Service Call (11.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Stanford, CA
• 2,42045.3%Rescue & EMS
• 1,59829.9%False Alarm
• 61011.4%Good Intent Call
• 2895.4%Fire
• 2154.0%Hazardous Condition
• 1512.8%Service Call
• 581.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (49.5%), and Structure Fires (30.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Stanford, CA
• 14349.5%Outside Fires
• 8730.1%Structure Fires
• 3612.5%Other
• 238.0%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires