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Highlands: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

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

According to the data from the years 2004 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 14. The highest number of reported fires - 33 took place in 2011, and the least - 0 in 2006. The data has a declining trend.

31.6% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.4% in the evening. The most fires (17.0%) took place on Saturday, and the least (9.7%) on Sunday.
According to the 206 reports from years 2004 - 2018 most fires (12.6%) took place during February, and the least (4.4%) in July.
Out of all 2,312 cases reported during the years 2004 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (40.5%), Hazardous Condition (17.8%), and False Alarm (15.8%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Highlands, NC
• 93640.5%Rescue & EMS
• 41217.8%Hazardous Condition
• 36515.8%False Alarm
• 23910.3%Good Intent Call
• 2068.9%Fire
• 1315.7%Service Call
• 140.6%Special Incident
• 80.3%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (52.9%), and Other (26.2%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Highlands, NC
• 10952.9%Structure Fires
• 5426.2%Other
• 3617.5%Outside Fires
• 73.4%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires