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St. Joseph: Fire Incidents, Missouri (MO)

2002 - 2011 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2011 the average number of fires per year is 61. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 81 took place in 2005, and the least - 41 in 2008. The data has a declining trend.

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


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

St. Joseph:	10 minutes
Atchison:	4 minutes
Plattsburg:	13 minutes
Leavenworth:	4 minutes
Cameron:	6 minutes
Holt:	8 minutes
Lansing:	6 minutes
Kearney:	7 minutes
Horton:	9 minutes

26.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 73.6% in the evening. The most fires (17.5%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.9%) on Sunday.
Based on the 606 incident reports from years 2002 - 2011 most fires (14.9%) took place during March, and the least (4.3%) in September.
Out of all 1,137 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2011, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (53.3%), Overpressure Rupture (27.2%), and Rescue & EMS (7.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in St. Joseph, MO
• 60653.3%Fire
• 30927.2%Rescue & EMS
• 847.4%Hazardous Condition
• 433.8%Good Intent Call
• 413.6%Special Incident
• 403.5%False Alarm
• 141.2%Service Call
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (57.3%), and Structure Fires (19.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in St. Joseph, MO
• 34757.3%Outside Fires
• 11619.1%Structure Fires
• 8914.7%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 548.9%Other