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Gate City: Fire Incidents, Virginia (VA)

2003 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 41. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 63 took place in 2007, and the least - 26 in 2015. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 10 minutes. This is higher than the Virginia median value.


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

Gate City:	10 minutes
Kingsport:	7 minutes
Church Hill:	9 minutes
Blountville:	11 minutes
Gray:	10 minutes
Big Stone Gap:	5 minutes
Bluff City:	8 minutes
Bristol:	6 minutes
Bristol:	4 minutes

27.8% incidents where reported in the morning and 72.2% in the evening. The most fires (18.1%) took place on Monday, and the least (10.6%) on Sunday.
According to the 659 incident reports from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (13.5%) took place during March, and the least (4.4%) in July.
Out of all 1,760 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (37.4%), Hazardous Condition (21.8%), and Rescue & EMS (16.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Gate City, VA
• 65937.4%Fire
• 38321.8%Hazardous Condition
• 29016.5%Rescue & EMS
• 19210.9%Service Call
• 1498.5%Good Intent Call
• 402.3%False Alarm
• 281.6%Special Incident
• 181.0%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (39.8%), and Outside Fires (38.2%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Gate City, VA
• 26239.8%Structure Fires
• 25238.2%Outside Fires
• 10616.1%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 395.9%Other