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Dry Ridge: Fire Incidents, Kentucky (KY)

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 46. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 117 took place in 2010, and the least - 4 in 2004. The data has a decreasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 9 minutes. This is higher compared to the Kentucky median value.


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

Dry Ridge:	9 minutes
Corinth:	16 minutes
Owenton:	11 minutes
Independence:	5 minutes
Florence:	6 minutes
Alexandria:	7 minutes
Erlanger:	5 minutes
Burlington:	7 minutes
Fort Wright:	6 minutes

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire-related yearly casualties is 0. The highest number of reported injuries - 3 took place in 2010, and the lowest - 0 in 2002. The data has a constant trend. The average number of casualties per 1,000 fires is 4. This indicator was the highest - 27 in 2006, and the lowest 0 in 2002. The trend for injuries per 1,000 incidents is constant. Compared to the Kentucky value the number of casualties per 1,000 fire incidents is similar.



Casualties per 1,000 incidents in Dry Ridge, KY compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Dry Ridge:	6.4
Corinth:	1.9
Owenton:	0.0
Independence:	8.4
Florence:	14.5
Alexandria:	14.1
Erlanger:	5.0
Burlington:	14.4
Fort Wright:	3.9

32.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.0% in the evening. The most fires (17.1%) took place on Monday, and the least (13.0%) on Wednesday.
Based on the 785 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (13.1%) took place during November, and the least (4.3%) in May.
Out of all 1,840 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (42.7%), Hazardous Condition (19.3%), and Rescue & EMS (17.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Dry Ridge, KY
• 78542.7%Fire
• 35619.3%Hazardous Condition
• 32217.5%Rescue & EMS
• 19710.7%Good Intent Call
• 904.9%Service Call
• 854.6%False Alarm
• 30.2%Special Incident
• 20.1%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (44.3%), and Outside Fires (36.7%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Dry Ridge, KY
• 34844.3%Structure Fires
• 28836.7%Outside Fires
• 13216.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 172.2%Other