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Atherton: Fire Incidents, California (CA)

2005 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2005 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 9. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 19 took place in 2007, and the least - 1 in 2005. The data has a rising trend.

The average number of yearly fire incidents per 10k residents in Atherton, CA compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for the last 3 years, including only cities with population 5,000 and above)
Atherton:	10.3
Menlo Park:	21.6
Redwood City:	23.3
Stanford:	21.7
East Palo Alto:	20.3
Palo Alto:	18.5
Woodside:	83.2
San Carlos:	15.2
Belmont:	17.4

34.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 65.5% in the evening. The most fires (18.5%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.1%) on Monday.
Based on the 119 fire incidents from years 2005 - 2018 most fires (15.1%) took place during June, and the least (4.2%) in March.
Out of all 2,516 cases reported during the years 2005 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (42.3%), False Alarm (17.8%), and Service Call (16.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Atherton, CA
• 1,06542.3%Rescue & EMS
• 44717.8%False Alarm
• 41616.5%Service Call
• 27611.0%Good Intent Call
• 1887.5%Hazardous Condition
• 1194.7%Fire
• 30.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (43.7%), and Outside Fires (38.7%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Atherton, CA
• 5243.7%Structure Fires
• 4638.7%Outside Fires
• 1411.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 75.9%Other