Seattle Fire overdose responses, August 2026
Seattle Fire was dispatched to 98 overdose calls in August 2026, down 30.5% from a year earlier. Across the series the monthly count has run between 68 (August 2022) and 233 (October 2023).
This is a floor, not a count. The dispatch feed carries no overdose flag; the number comes from matching the free-text dispatch type, so a call logged as an aid response or an unconscious person is not in it even when that is what it was. The real figure is higher, by an unknown and probably unstable margin.
The series starts in August 2022 because that is when the dispatch label first appears in the feed. The nineteen years in front of it are the absence of a category, not the absence of overdoses, and they are clipped out of both the chart and the arithmetic above so nothing here reports a record low that is really a missing label. It counts dispatches, not patients or deaths.
Source: Seattle Fire Department, Real-Time 911 dispatch feed, via data.seattle.gov (Socrata kzjm-xkqj), matched on dispatch type. Auto-generated each build.