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Cana: Fire Incidents, Virginia (VA)

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

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 37. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 60 took place in 2008, and the least - 5 in 2005. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 10 minutes. This is higher than the state median value.


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

Cana:	10 minutes
Mount Airy:	7 minutes
Hillsville:	10 minutes
Dobson:	9 minutes
Galax:	10 minutes
Pilot Mountain:	9 minutes
Pinnacle:	9 minutes
Stuart:	13 minutes
Boonville:	9 minutes

29.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.6% in the evening. The most fires (18.8%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.3%) on Tuesday.
Based on the 629 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.1%) took place during January, and the least (3.5%) in July.
Out of all 1,920 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (41.2%), Fire (32.8%), and Rescue & EMS (11.8%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Cana, VA
• 79141.2%Rescue & EMS
• 62932.8%Fire
• 22711.8%Hazardous Condition
• 1809.4%Good Intent Call
• 512.7%Service Call
• 261.4%False Alarm
• 130.7%Severe Weather
• 30.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (52.5%), and Structure Fires (25.0%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Cana, VA
• 33052.5%Outside Fires
• 15725.0%Structure Fires
• 8213.0%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 609.5%Other