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Avondale: Fire Incidents, Louisiana (LA)

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

Based on the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 60. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 101 took place in 2017, and the least - 8 in 2007. The data has a decreasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 3 minutes. This is much lower than the Louisiana median value.


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

Avondale:	3 minutes
Westwego:	2 minutes
Jefferson:	4 minutes
Marrero:	4 minutes
Metairie:	4 minutes
Kenner:	6 minutes
Harvey:	4 minutes
Gretna:	3 minutes
Luling:	7 minutes

36.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 64.0% in the evening. The most fires (16.0%) took place on Sunday, and the least (12.1%) on Saturday.
Based on the 1,012 fire incidents from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (10.6%) took place during September, and the least (7.0%) in May.
Out of all 2,945 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (34.4%), Rescue & EMS (21.8%), and Good Intent Call (15.6%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Avondale, LA
• 1,01234.4%Fire
• 64321.8%Rescue & EMS
• 45915.6%Good Intent Call
• 40213.7%Hazardous Condition
• 30510.4%False Alarm
• 1113.8%Service Call
• 70.2%Special Incident
• 40.1%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (51.6%), and Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires (22.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Avondale, LA
• 52251.6%Structure Fires
• 22822.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 21821.5%Outside Fires
• 444.3%Other