Jump to a detailed profile or search site with

Floyd: Fire Incidents, Virginia (VA)

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 42. The highest number of fire incidents - 64 took place in 2017, and the least - 30 in 2010. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 16 minutes. This is much higher compared to the Virginia median value.


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

Floyd:	16 minutes
Christiansburg:	7 minutes
Stuart:	13 minutes
Radford:	5 minutes
Bassett:	10 minutes
Blacksburg:	5 minutes
Dublin:	7 minutes
Rocky Mount:	10 minutes
Hillsville:	10 minutes

29.7% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.3% in the evening. The most fires (16.4%) took place on Monday, and the least (12.3%) on Thursday.
Based on the 708 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (17.2%) took place during February, and the least (3.4%) in July.
Out of all 2,558 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Hazardous Condition (54.1%), Fire (27.7%), and Good Intent Call (10.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Floyd, VA
• 1,38454.1%Hazardous Condition
• 70827.7%Fire
• 26610.4%Good Intent Call
• 1024.0%Rescue & EMS
• 451.8%False Alarm
• 361.4%Service Call
• 80.3%Severe Weather
• 80.3%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (47.6%), and Outside Fires (41.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Floyd, VA
• 33747.6%Structure Fires
• 29141.1%Outside Fires
• 588.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 223.1%Other