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Lamar: Fire Incidents, Colorado (CO)

2002 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 68. The highest number of fire incidents - 128 took place in 2005, and the least - 24 in 2018. The data has a decreasing trend.


The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Lamar, CO compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)

Lamar:	75.8
La Junta:	143.6

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 4 minutes. This is lower compared to the state median value.


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

Lamar:	4 minutes
La Junta:	8 minutes
Rocky Ford:	5 minutes

28.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 71.6% in the evening. The most fires (17.1%) took place on Monday, and the least (12.4%) on Friday.
According to the 1,164 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (13.3%) took place during March, and the least (6.4%) in May.
Out of all 3,114 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (37.4%), Hazardous Condition (31.9%), and Rescue & EMS (12.9%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Lamar, CO
• 1,16437.4%Fire
• 99231.9%Hazardous Condition
• 40112.9%Rescue & EMS
• 31910.2%False Alarm
• 1534.9%Good Intent Call
• 622.0%Service Call
• 140.4%Special Incident
• 60.2%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (44.4%), and Structure Fires (36.9%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Lamar, CO
• 51744.4%Outside Fires
• 42936.9%Structure Fires
• 16614.3%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 524.5%Other