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Watertown: Fire Incidents, Tennessee (TN)

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

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 32. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 71 took place in 2007, and the least - 2 in 2002. The data has a rising trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 12 minutes. This is higher than the Tennessee median value.


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

Watertown:	12 minutes
Lebanon:	7 minutes
Carthage:	7 minutes
Woodbury:	11 minutes
Smithville:	12 minutes
Murfreesboro:	6 minutes
Mount Juliet:	9 minutes
Smyrna:	6 minutes
La Vergne:	3 minutes

31.3% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.8% in the evening. The most fires (18.0%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.7%) on Wednesday.
According to the 544 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (11.4%) took place during November, and the least (5.9%) in September.
Out of all 1,323 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (42.9%), Fire (41.1%), and Service Call (7.4%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Watertown, TN
• 56842.9%Rescue & EMS
• 54441.1%Fire
• 987.4%Good Intent Call
• 423.2%Service Call
• 413.1%Hazardous Condition
• 241.8%False Alarm
• 40.3%Special Incident
• 20.2%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (45.4%), and Structure Fires (39.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Watertown, TN
• 24745.4%Outside Fires
• 21539.5%Structure Fires
• 5810.7%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 244.4%Other