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South St. Paul: Fire Incidents, Minnesota (MN)

2003 - 2007 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2003 - 2007 the average number of fires per year is 104. The highest number of fire incidents - 137 took place in 2003, and the least - 90 in 2007. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 3 minutes. This is much lower than the Minnesota median value.


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

South St. Paul:	3 minutes
Inver Grove Heights:	7 minutes
Woodbury:	6 minutes
Cottage Grove:	7 minutes
Maplewood:	5 minutes
Oakdale:	5 minutes
Eagan:	6 minutes
Little Canada:	3 minutes
Lake Elmo:	7 minutes

31.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.6% in the evening. The most fires (17.6%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.5%) on Thursday.
According to the 522 fire incident reports from years 2003 - 2007 most fires (12.6%) took place during April, and the least (4.2%) in January.
Out of all 2,809 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2007, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (47.6%), Hazardous Condition (20.3%), and Fire (18.6%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in South St. Paul, MN
• 1,33747.6%Rescue & EMS
• 57120.3%Hazardous Condition
• 52218.6%Fire
• 1906.8%Service Call
• 983.5%False Alarm
• 833.0%Good Intent Call
• 60.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (35.4%), and Outside Fires (33.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in South St. Paul, MN
• 18535.4%Structure Fires
• 17333.1%Outside Fires
• 8716.7%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 7714.8%Other