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Lake Lure: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

2004 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2004 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 49. The highest number of fire incidents - 93 took place in 2007, and the least - 1 in 2013. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 10 minutes. This is higher compared to the North Carolina median value.


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

Lake Lure:	10 minutes
Old Fort:	11 minutes
Fairview:	8 minutes
Rutherfordton:	8 minutes
Black Mountain:	6 minutes
Swannanoa:	8 minutes
East Flat Rock:	5 minutes
Hendersonville:	7 minutes
Fletcher:	7 minutes

27.6% incidents where reported in the morning and 72.4% in the evening. The most fires (19.8%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.2%) on Friday.
According to the 731 reports from years 2004 - 2018 most fires (15.7%) took place during April, and the least (2.6%) in September.
Out of all 4,500 cases reported during the years 2004 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Hazardous Condition (46.7%), Rescue & EMS (18.8%), and Fire (16.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Lake Lure, NC
• 2,10246.7%Hazardous Condition
• 84418.8%Rescue & EMS
• 73116.2%Fire
• 3457.7%Good Intent Call
• 3056.8%Service Call
• 1262.8%False Alarm
• 340.8%Severe Weather
• 120.3%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (51.2%), and Structure Fires (36.0%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Lake Lure, NC
• 37451.2%Outside Fires
• 26336.0%Structure Fires
• 7510.3%Other
• 192.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires