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Melbourne: Fire Incidents, Arkansas (AR)

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 41. The highest number of reported fires - 73 took place in 2007, and the least - 8 in 2018. The data has a decreasing trend.

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


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

Melbourne:	10 minutes
Mountain View:	9 minutes
Ash Flat:	6 minutes
Cave City:	7 minutes
Viola:	10 minutes
Cherokee Village:	5 minutes
Batesville:	4 minutes
Hardy:	10 minutes
Mountain Home:	8 minutes

24.9% incidents where reported in the morning and 75.1% in the evening. The most fires (18.3%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.4%) on Friday.
Based on the 695 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (23.0%) took place during March, and the least (3.0%) in September.
Out of all 1,264 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (55.0%), Overpressure Rupture (22.2%), and Rescue & EMS (13.0%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Melbourne, AR
• 69555.0%Fire
• 28022.2%Rescue & EMS
• 16413.0%Hazardous Condition
• 816.4%Good Intent Call
• 302.4%Service Call
• 110.9%False Alarm
• 20.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Outside Fires (65.9%), and Structure Fires (24.9%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Melbourne, AR
• 45865.9%Outside Fires
• 17324.9%Structure Fires
• 507.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 142.0%Other