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Spring Lake: Fire Incidents, Michigan (MI)

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 37. The highest number of fires - 62 took place in 2004, and the least - 13 in 2008. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 7 minutes. This is similar to the state median value.


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

Spring Lake:	7 minutes
Grand Haven:	6 minutes
Norton Shores:	5 minutes
Muskegon Heights:	4 minutes
Muskegon:	4 minutes
Coopersville:	8 minutes
Allendale:	8 minutes
Twin Lake:	10 minutes
Zeeland:	7 minutes

33.3% incidents where reported in the morning and 66.7% in the evening. The most fires (15.7%) took place on Friday, and the least (12.2%) on Thursday.
According to the 625 fire incidents from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.6%) took place during April, and the least (5.1%) in January.
Out of all 6,963 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (56.9%), Hazardous Condition (10.9%), and Good Intent Call (10.9%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Spring Lake, MI
• 3,96456.9%Rescue & EMS
• 75810.9%Hazardous Condition
• 75610.9%Good Intent Call
• 6259.0%Fire
• 4186.0%Service Call
• 3124.5%False Alarm
• 1251.8%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (46.7%), and Outside Fires (29.0%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Spring Lake, MI
• 29246.7%Structure Fires
• 18129.0%Outside Fires
• 9915.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 538.5%Other