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Garnett: Fire Incidents, Kansas (KS)

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 67. The highest number of fires - 123 took place in 2014, and the least - 29 in 2008. The data has a rising trend.

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


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

Garnett:	10 minutes
Osawatomie:	9 minutes
Ottawa:	5 minutes
Iola:	6 minutes
Burlington:	10 minutes
Paola:	10 minutes
Wellsville:	10 minutes
Lyndon:	10 minutes
Baldwin City:	9 minutes

24.9% incidents where reported in the morning and 75.1% in the evening. The most fires (16.5%) took place on Friday, and the least (12.7%) on Monday.
According to the 1,141 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (26.1%) took place during March, and the least (2.7%) in May.
Out of all 1,792 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (63.7%), Rescue & EMS (15.5%), and Good Intent Call (9.9%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Garnett, KS
• 1,14163.7%Fire
• 27715.5%Rescue & EMS
• 1789.9%Good Intent Call
• 895.0%Hazardous Condition
• 593.3%False Alarm
• 271.5%Service Call
• 110.6%Special Incident
• 90.5%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (64.2%), and Structure Fires (24.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Garnett, KS
• 73364.2%Outside Fires
• 27524.1%Structure Fires
• 978.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 363.2%Other