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Ward: Fire Incidents, Arkansas (AR)

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

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 58. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 84 took place in 2015, and the least - 32 in 2008. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 7 minutes. This is comparable to the Arkansas median value.


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

Ward:	7 minutes
Austin:	7 minutes
Cabot:	6 minutes
Beebe:	5 minutes
McRae:	8 minutes
Jacksonville:	5 minutes
Vilonia:	6 minutes
Lonoke:	9 minutes
Sherwood:	4 minutes

29.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.8% in the evening. The most fires (17.5%) took place on Thursday, and the least (11.2%) on Monday.
According to the 985 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (16.2%) took place during January, and the least (4.6%) in December.
Out of all 2,895 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (55.4%), Fire (34.0%), and Good Intent Call (5.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Ward, AR
• 1,60555.4%Rescue & EMS
• 98534.0%Fire
• 1595.5%Good Intent Call
• 551.9%Hazardous Condition
• 471.6%Service Call
• 351.2%False Alarm
• 60.2%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (51.6%), and Structure Fires (36.9%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Ward, AR
• 50851.6%Outside Fires
• 36336.9%Structure Fires
• 727.3%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 424.3%Other