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Buchanan: Fire Incidents, Georgia (GA)

2006 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2006 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 96. The highest number of reported fires - 215 took place in 2014, and the least - 0 in 2008. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 7 minutes. This is about the same as the Georgia median value.


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

Buchanan:	7 minutes
Bremen:	6 minutes
Tallapoosa:	8 minutes
Temple:	7 minutes
Cedartown:	8 minutes
Villa Rica:	7 minutes
Rockmart:	8 minutes
Carrollton:	6 minutes
Bowdon:	7 minutes

28.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 71.6% in the evening. The most fires (17.7%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.0%) on Tuesday.
According to the 1,251 fire incident reports from years 2006 - 2018 most fires (18.0%) took place during March, and the least (3.5%) in August.
Out of all 7,521 cases reported during the years 2006 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (43.3%), Service Call (17.6%), and Fire (16.6%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Buchanan, GA
• 3,26043.3%Rescue & EMS
• 1,32417.6%Service Call
• 1,25116.6%Fire
• 7099.4%Hazardous Condition
• 6238.3%Good Intent Call
• 1992.6%False Alarm
• 1151.5%Severe Weather
• 360.5%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (64.1%), and Structure Fires (23.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Buchanan, GA
• 80264.1%Outside Fires
• 29423.5%Structure Fires
• 1209.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 352.8%Other