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Yates Center: Fire Incidents, Kansas (KS)

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 31. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 101 took place in 2006, and the least - 1 in 2004. The data has a rising trend.

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


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

Yates Center:	10 minutes
Iola:	6 minutes
Chanute:	6 minutes
Burlington:	10 minutes
Eureka:	5 minutes
Neodesha:	5 minutes
Garnett:	10 minutes
Cherryvale:	7 minutes
Emporia:	6 minutes

20.8% incidents where reported in the morning and 79.2% in the evening. The most fires (18.8%) took place on Saturday, and the least (9.9%) on Thursday.
Based on the 533 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (19.7%) took place during April, and the least (2.1%) in May.
Out of all 579 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (92.1%), Rescue & EMS (4.3%), and Overpressure Rupture (2.1%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Yates Center, KS
• 53392.1%Fire
• 254.3%Hazardous Condition
• 122.1%Rescue & EMS
• 50.9%Good Intent Call
• 40.7%False Alarm
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (79.0%), and Structure Fires (11.4%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Yates Center, KS
• 42179.0%Outside Fires
• 6111.4%Structure Fires
• 458.4%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 61.1%Other