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Rocky Ford: Fire Incidents, Colorado (CO)

2007 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2007 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 51. The highest number of fire incidents - 128 took place in 2018, and the least - 4 in 2012. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 5 minutes. This is lower than the state median value.


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

Rocky Ford:	5 minutes
La Junta:	8 minutes
Pueblo:	6 minutes
Pueblo West:	7 minutes
Lamar:	4 minutes
Fountain:	5 minutes
Trinidad:	6 minutes
Calhan:	17 minutes
Peyton:	12 minutes

30.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.0% in the evening. The most fires (16.7%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.8%) on Wednesday.
Based on the 611 incident reports from years 2007 - 2018 most fires (18.7%) took place during March, and the least (3.6%) in September.
Out of all 1,200 cases reported during the years 2007 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (50.9%), Rescue & EMS (13.7%), and Hazardous Condition (9.9%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Rocky Ford, CO
• 61150.9%Fire
• 16413.7%Rescue & EMS
• 1199.9%Hazardous Condition
• 1099.1%Good Intent Call
• 1089.0%Service Call
• 867.2%False Alarm
• 20.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (65.3%), and Structure Fires (20.8%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Rocky Ford, CO
• 39965.3%Outside Fires
• 12720.8%Structure Fires
• 6811.1%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 172.8%Other