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Medical Lake: Fire Incidents, Washington (WA)

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 46. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 75 took place in 2006, and the least - 13 in 2002. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 12 minutes. This is higher than the state median value.


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

Medical Lake:	12 minutes
Airway Heights:	6 minutes
Cheney:	6 minutes
Spokane:	6 minutes
Spokane Valley:	6 minutes
Deer Park:	10 minutes
Post Falls:	7 minutes
Rathdrum:	10 minutes
Coeur d'Alene:	6 minutes

29.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.6% in the evening. The most fires (16.5%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.3%) on Wednesday.
Based on the 787 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (17.5%) took place during July, and the least (4.1%) in November.
Out of all 4,401 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (63.2%), Fire (17.9%), and False Alarm (5.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Medical Lake, WA
• 2,78363.2%Rescue & EMS
• 78717.9%Fire
• 2395.4%False Alarm
• 2305.2%Good Intent Call
• 1864.2%Hazardous Condition
• 1643.7%Service Call
• 80.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (42.3%), and Outside Fires (42.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Medical Lake, WA
• 33342.3%Structure Fires
• 33142.1%Outside Fires
• 698.8%Other
• 546.9%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires