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Bentonia: Fire Incidents, Mississippi (MS)

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

According to the data from the years 2004 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 39. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 76 took place in 2010, and the least - 17 in 2016. The data has a decreasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 11 minutes. This is higher compared to the Mississippi median value.


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

Bentonia:	11 minutes
Flora:	8 minutes
Yazoo City:	6 minutes
Canton:	6 minutes
Madison:	5 minutes
Bolton:	8 minutes
Ridgeland:	4 minutes
Clinton:	5 minutes
Jackson:	5 minutes

28.9% incidents where reported in the morning and 71.1% in the evening. The most fires (16.3%) took place on Saturday, and the least (13.8%) on Monday.
According to the 589 reports from years 2004 - 2018 most fires (11.4%) took place during March, and the least (4.8%) in July.
Out of all 1,518 cases reported during the years 2004 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (51.9%), Fire (38.8%), and Good Intent Call (5.8%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Bentonia, MS
• 78851.9%Rescue & EMS
• 58938.8%Fire
• 885.8%Good Intent Call
• 271.8%Hazardous Condition
• 151.0%False Alarm
• 60.4%Service Call
• 30.2%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (57.4%), and Structure Fires (23.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Bentonia, MS
• 33857.4%Outside Fires
• 13723.3%Structure Fires
• 6711.4%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 478.0%Other