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Pottsboro: Fire Incidents, Texas (TX)

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 101. The highest number of reported fires - 206 took place in 2006, and the least - 59 in 2016. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 8 minutes. This is higher than the Texas median value.


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

Pottsboro:	8 minutes
Denison:	7 minutes
Sherman:	6 minutes
Colbert:	8 minutes
Kingston:	8 minutes
Whitesboro:	11 minutes
Bells:	10 minutes
Durant:	4 minutes
Whitewright:	11 minutes

29.7% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.3% in the evening. The most fires (16.8%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.2%) on Thursday.
According to the 1,722 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (13.6%) took place during July, and the least (5.1%) in May.
Out of all 5,143 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (36.2%), Fire (33.5%), and Good Intent Call (10.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Pottsboro, TX
• 1,86336.2%Rescue & EMS
• 1,72233.5%Fire
• 53810.5%Good Intent Call
• 4558.8%Service Call
• 3907.6%Hazardous Condition
• 1372.7%False Alarm
• 270.5%Special Incident
• 70.1%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (54.1%), and Structure Fires (31.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Pottsboro, TX
• 93254.1%Outside Fires
• 53631.1%Structure Fires
• 1357.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 1196.9%Other