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Data story · Public safety

How quickly can a fire engine reach you?

The City publishes the areas its three fire stations can reach in one, two, three and four minutes. We placed all 11,792 street addresses inside the city limits on those areas to see who is covered, and where the gaps are.

84%
of addresses within 4 minutes
1,930
addresses beyond 4 minutes
District 1
has 963 of them

The four-minute map

Darker means closer to a station. Hover a band in the key to pick it out. Council district lines are drawn on top.

Who is covered

591 addresses are within a minute of a station. Most of the city sits in the two to four minute bands, and 1,930 addresses (16%) are outside every four-minute area the City has mapped.

Within 1 minute591
1 to 2 minutes1,800
2 to 3 minutes3,599
3 to 4 minutes3,872
Over 4 minutes1,930

By council district

District 2 has the best coverage, with 94% of addresses within four minutes. In District 1 it is 65%: 963 addresses, 50% of all the addresses beyond four minutes in the city.

District 1 · Kris Beal65% within 4 min
District 2 · Chris Bausch94% within 4 min
District 3 · Steve Gregory90% within 4 min
District 4 · Fred Strong84% within 4 min

Fire Station 1

4,110

addresses within its four-minute area

Fire Station 2

5,748

addresses within its four-minute area

Fire Station 3

2,287

addresses within its four-minute area

Station areas overlap, so these add up to more than the city total. Station 2 reaches the most addresses within four minutes.

How we worked this out

One point per street address (units left out) from Address Points, kept when it falls inside City Limits. Each one gets the shortest band that covers it from the 1, 2, 3 and 4 minute response time areas, and its district from Current Council Districts. The response areas are the City’s own drive-time model; real response times also depend on traffic and which engines are free.