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Wheatfield: Fire Incidents, Indiana (IN)

2002 - 2016 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2016 the average number of fires per year is 43. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 96 took place in 2004, and the least - 1 in 2015. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 9 minutes. This is higher compared to the Indiana median value.


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

Wheatfield:	9 minutes
Hebron:	9 minutes
North Judson:	0 minutes
Valparaiso:	6 minutes
Lowell:	9 minutes
Lake Village:	11 minutes
Crown Point:	6 minutes
Cedar Lake:	7 minutes
Knox:	7 minutes

24.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 75.5% in the evening. The most fires (16.6%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.9%) on Thursday.
According to the 645 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2016 most fires (25.3%) took place during April, and the least (3.4%) in December.
Out of all 977 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2016, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (66.0%), Rescue & EMS (15.8%), and Hazardous Condition (9.9%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Wheatfield, IN
• 64566.0%Fire
• 15415.8%Rescue & EMS
• 979.9%Hazardous Condition
• 303.1%False Alarm
• 262.7%Good Intent Call
• 181.8%Service Call
• 30.3%Severe Weather
• 30.3%Special Incident
• 10.1%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (64.2%), and Structure Fires (23.7%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Wheatfield, IN
• 41464.2%Outside Fires
• 15323.7%Structure Fires
• 548.4%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 243.7%Other