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Somerville: Fire Incidents, Tennessee (TN)

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 90. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 195 took place in 2007, and the least - 2 in 2003. The data has a rising trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 9 minutes. This is higher compared to the Tennessee median value.


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

Somerville:	9 minutes
Oakland:	8 minutes
Moscow:	13 minutes
Arlington:	6 minutes
Bolivar:	4 minutes
Collierville:	5 minutes
Brownsville:	8 minutes
Brighton:	9 minutes
Germantown:	5 minutes

29.1% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.9% in the evening. The most fires (16.0%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.9%) on Tuesday.
According to the 1,534 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (12.8%) took place during January, and the least (5.3%) in May.
Out of all 6,931 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (56.4%), Fire (22.1%), and Good Intent Call (8.6%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Somerville, TN
• 3,90956.4%Rescue & EMS
• 1,53422.1%Fire
• 5998.6%Good Intent Call
• 3394.9%False Alarm
• 3354.8%Hazardous Condition
• 1942.8%Service Call
• 150.2%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (45.9%), and Outside Fires (40.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Somerville, TN
• 70445.9%Structure Fires
• 61840.3%Outside Fires
• 20013.0%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 120.8%Other