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Lancaster: Fire Incidents, Kentucky (KY)

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

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 48. The highest number of reported fires - 94 took place in 2010, and the least - 11 in 2002. The data has a rising 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 Lancaster, KY compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Lancaster:	10 minutes
Stanford:	11 minutes
Danville:	5 minutes
Berea:	9 minutes
Hustonville:	12 minutes
Brodhead:	9 minutes
Harrodsburg:	6 minutes
Richmond:	7 minutes
Nicholasville:	6 minutes

31.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.8% in the evening. The most fires (16.2%) took place on Tuesday, and the least (11.4%) on Sunday.
According to the 808 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (11.6%) took place during March, and the least (5.1%) in August.
Out of all 2,542 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (31.8%), Rescue & EMS (27.8%), and Hazardous Condition (16.8%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Lancaster, KY
• 80831.8%Fire
• 70627.8%Rescue & EMS
• 42716.8%Hazardous Condition
• 25310.0%Good Intent Call
• 2419.5%Service Call
• 622.4%False Alarm
• 271.1%Severe Weather
• 130.5%Special Incident
• 50.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (58.5%), and Outside Fires (22.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Lancaster, KY
• 47358.5%Structure Fires
• 18222.5%Outside Fires
• 8310.3%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 708.7%Other