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Blackshear: Fire Incidents, Georgia (GA)

2004 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2004 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 59. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 161 took place in 2011, and the least - 16 in 2005. The data has a decreasing trend.

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


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

Blackshear:	7 minutes
Waycross:	8 minutes
Alma:	8 minutes
Jesup:	9 minutes
Baxley:	7 minutes
Folkston:	9 minutes
Douglas:	6 minutes
Woodbine:	7 minutes
Hazlehurst:	5 minutes

22.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 78.0% in the evening. The most fires (16.9%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.8%) on Thursday.
Based on the 889 fire incident reports from years 2004 - 2018 most fires (12.7%) took place during January, and the least (4.8%) in September.
Out of all 1,816 cases reported during the years 2004 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (49.0%), Rescue & EMS (22.6%), and Hazardous Condition (10.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Blackshear, GA
• 88949.0%Fire
• 41122.6%Rescue & EMS
• 18910.4%Hazardous Condition
• 1126.2%False Alarm
• 794.4%Good Intent Call
• 713.9%Service Call
• 532.9%Special Incident
• 110.6%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (56.1%), and Structure Fires (28.8%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Blackshear, GA
• 49956.1%Outside Fires
• 25628.8%Structure Fires
• 11713.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 171.9%Other