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Catawba: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

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 50. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 145 took place in 2007, and the least - 13 in 2017. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 6 minutes. This is comparable to the state median value.


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

Catawba:	6 minutes
Claremont:	5 minutes
Conover:	5 minutes
Sherrills Ford:	5 minutes
Newton:	5 minutes
Troutman:	7 minutes
Maiden:	6 minutes
Statesville:	6 minutes
Denver:	6 minutes

23.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 76.5% in the evening. The most fires (15.7%) took place on Tuesday, and the least (10.6%) on Sunday.
According to the 851 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.8%) took place during February, and the least (5.1%) in May.
Out of all 3,055 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (27.9%), Rescue & EMS (25.5%), and Service Call (18.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Catawba, NC
• 85127.9%Fire
• 77925.5%Rescue & EMS
• 56118.4%Service Call
• 49716.3%Hazardous Condition
• 1755.7%False Alarm
• 1705.6%Good Intent Call
• 130.4%Severe Weather
• 70.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (42.8%), and Structure Fires (32.8%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Catawba, NC
• 36442.8%Outside Fires
• 27932.8%Structure Fires
• 12514.7%Other
• 839.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires