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Fishkill: Fire Incidents, New York (NY)

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 40. The highest number of reported fires - 65 took place in 2014, and the least - 23 in 2009. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 5 minutes. This is higher than the New York median value.


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

Fishkill:	5 minutes
Beacon:	3 minutes
Wappingers Falls:	6 minutes
Hopewell Junction:	9 minutes
Newburgh:	3 minutes
New Windsor:	7 minutes
Putnam Valley:	8 minutes
Poughkeepsie:	5 minutes
Carmel:	8 minutes

29.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.6% in the evening. The most fires (16.2%) took place on Saturday, and the least (13.1%) on Thursday.
According to the 680 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (11.5%) took place during April, and the least (4.9%) in November.
Out of all 8,688 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Hazardous Condition (30.4%), Rescue & EMS (25.4%), and False Alarm (18.1%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Fishkill, NY
• 2,64130.4%Hazardous Condition
• 2,21125.4%Rescue & EMS
• 1,57218.1%False Alarm
• 8209.4%Service Call
• 6928.0%Good Intent Call
• 6807.8%Fire
• 520.6%Severe Weather
• 140.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (41.0%), and Outside Fires (31.6%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Fishkill, NY
• 27941.0%Structure Fires
• 21531.6%Outside Fires
• 14120.7%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 456.6%Other