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Plattsburg: Fire Incidents, Missouri (MO)

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

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 37. The highest number of reported fires - 81 took place in 2007, and the least - 13 in 2017. The data has a declining trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 13 minutes. This is much higher compared to the state median value.


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

Plattsburg:	13 minutes
Holt:	8 minutes
Kearney:	7 minutes
Lawson:	10 minutes
Cameron:	6 minutes
Excelsior Springs:	8 minutes
Liberty:	6 minutes
St. Joseph:	10 minutes
Gladstone:	4 minutes

27.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 72.8% in the evening. The most fires (17.0%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.4%) on Thursday.
Based on the 624 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (17.8%) took place during March, and the least (3.7%) in July.
Out of all 1,867 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (46.4%), Fire (33.4%), and Rescue & EMS (7.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Plattsburg, MO
• 86746.4%Rescue & EMS
• 62433.4%Fire
• 1357.2%Hazardous Condition
• 1156.2%Good Intent Call
• 633.4%Service Call
• 532.8%False Alarm
• 60.3%Severe Weather
• 40.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (48.7%), and Structure Fires (33.2%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Plattsburg, MO
• 30448.7%Outside Fires
• 20733.2%Structure Fires
• 6810.9%Other
• 457.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires