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Potosi: Fire Incidents, Missouri (MO)

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

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 168. The highest number of fire incidents - 236 took place in 2006, and the least - 103 in 2003. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 13 minutes. This is much higher than the Missouri median value.


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

Potosi:	13 minutes
Mineral Point:	10 minutes
Irondale:	11 minutes
Bonne Terre:	11 minutes
Bismarck:	9 minutes
Park Hills:	10 minutes
De Soto:	10 minutes
Doe Run:	13 minutes
Farmington:	9 minutes

27.1% incidents where reported in the morning and 72.9% in the evening. The most fires (17.6%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.0%) on Thursday.
According to the 2,855 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (17.5%) took place during March, and the least (4.4%) in June.
Out of all 5,593 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (51.0%), Hazardous Condition (19.2%), and Rescue & EMS (12.8%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Potosi, MO
• 2,85551.0%Fire
• 1,07619.2%Hazardous Condition
• 71712.8%Rescue & EMS
• 5459.7%Good Intent Call
• 2664.8%Service Call
• 1081.9%False Alarm
• 190.3%Special Incident
• 60.1%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (41.6%), and Outside Fires (40.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Potosi, MO
• 1,18841.6%Structure Fires
• 1,15040.3%Outside Fires
• 28710.1%Other
• 2308.1%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires