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Spruce Pine: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

2003 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 46. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 79 took place in 2016, and the least - 7 in 2003. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 10 minutes. This is higher compared to the state median value.


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

Spruce Pine:	10 minutes
Burnsville:	9 minutes
Newland:	8 minutes
Marion:	9 minutes
Old Fort:	11 minutes
Morganton:	7 minutes
Black Mountain:	6 minutes
Swannanoa:	8 minutes
Lenoir:	4 minutes

31.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.5% in the evening. The most fires (17.5%) took place on Tuesday, and the least (12.7%) on Thursday.
Based on the 733 fire incident reports from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (13.6%) took place during April, and the least (3.3%) in July.
Out of all 4,755 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (41.4%), Rescue & EMS (15.5%), and Fire (15.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Spruce Pine, NC
• 1,96941.4%Rescue & EMS
• 73615.5%Hazardous Condition
• 73315.4%Fire
• 48610.2%Service Call
• 48610.2%Good Intent Call
• 3327.0%False Alarm
• 80.2%Special Incident
• 50.1%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (54.3%), and Outside Fires (26.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Spruce Pine, NC
• 39854.3%Structure Fires
• 19326.3%Outside Fires
• 7810.6%Other
• 648.7%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires