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Real-time fire, medical, traffic and police dispatch activity in Queen Anne — the hilltop neighborhood and its Uptown flats around Seattle Center, the Space Needle and Climate Pledge Arena. The feed is filtered to Queen Anne from the citywide dispatch stream and refreshes every thirty seconds.
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Queen Anne is the steep hill just northwest of downtown, bounded by Lake Union and Aurora Avenue North on the east, the Lake Washington Ship Canal on the north, Interbay on the west and Belltown on the south. Residents distinguish Upper Queen Anne, the residential hilltop with its own small business district along Queen Anne Avenue North, from Lower Queen Anne — also called Uptown — the flatter, denser area at the southern base of the hill beside Seattle Center.
The hill's development took off after cable car lines began climbing it in 1890; the steepest stretch of Queen Anne Avenue is still known as the Counterbalance, named for the counterweight system that once helped streetcars up the grade. Kerry Park on West Highland Drive, a small park with a famous view of the Space Needle, downtown and, on clear days, Mount Rainier, is one of the city's best-known viewpoints.
At the foot of the hill, the grounds of the 1962 World's Fair became Seattle Center, home to the Space Needle, the Pacific Science Center and the north terminal of the monorail. Its biggest draw is Climate Pledge Arena at 334 1st Avenue N, which reopened after a full rebuild on October 19, 2021 and hosts the Seattle Kraken and Seattle Storm as well as concerts. Mercer Street, which connects to I-5 at Exit 167, carries much of the traffic in and out.
SPD dispatched officers to 11,495 community-generated events in its Queen Anne area over the twelve months ending September 2026, the fifth-highest total among the city's 58 SPD neighborhood areas. Queen Anne is large and populous, and the Uptown area at its base sits next to one of the region's biggest event venues, so a high count reflects a lot of people rather than unusual danger. Our explainer on neighborhood dispatch patterns covers that relationship.
Traffic is the signature. Traffic events are 21.9% of Queen Anne's dispatched calls, against 16.4% citywide, and the busiest police hour is the 9 a.m. hour — the morning commute — after which volume holds roughly level through the afternoon. Property calls are also above average: theft is 7.1% of events (city 5.2%) and burglary 3.0% (city 1.8%). Crisis complaints and suspicious-circumstance reports make up a smaller share than they do citywide.
Seattle Fire recorded 4,077 incidents within the area shown on this page's map, which includes Seattle Center — about 11 a day. The clearest fingerprint is the arena and campus: "Special Event" incidents, the label used when crews are assigned to large gatherings, make up 4.2% of incidents here versus 0.8% citywide. Fire and medical calls peak in the 5 p.m. hour, later in the day than the police peak, which is consistent with evening events and the after-work hours, though the data alone can't separate the two. Elevator rescues (2.6% vs 1.9%) and residential fire alarms (2.0% vs 1.2%) are also above average, reflecting the many mid-rise apartment buildings in Uptown and along the slopes.
| Seattle Fire incident type | Incidents | Share here | Share citywide |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aid Response | 2,049 | 50.3% | 49.8% |
| Medic Response | 384 | 9.4% | 10.5% |
| Auto Fire Alarm | 272 | 6.7% | 6.2% |
| EVENT - Special Event | 171 | 4.2% | 0.8% |
| Aid Response Yellow | 160 | 3.9% | 4.4% |
| Rescue Elevator | 104 | 2.6% | 1.9% |
Queen Anne's feed changes with the event calendar. On nights when Climate Pledge Arena or another Seattle Center venue fills up, expect standby fire units, medical-aid calls in and around the venues, and a rise in traffic and parking complaints in Uptown before and after the event. On ordinary weekdays the mix is quieter and more residential: collisions and traffic hazards along Mercer Street and the arterials at the edges of the hill; property crime reports; and medical calls from apartment buildings.
Upper Queen Anne itself is mostly houses and low-rise apartments, and calls there are spread thinly across the hilltop; the concentration of activity is in Uptown and along the main arterials.
Queen Anne's own fire station is Station 8 at 110 Lee Street on the hilltop, home to Engine 8 and Ladder 6. It does not house a paramedic unit, so advanced life support comes from the closest available medic unit elsewhere in the city. Lower Queen Anne also sits close to Station 2 in Belltown (Engine 2, Ladder 4, Aid 2), and Station 20 in Interbay (Engine 20) sits below the hill's western slope. Our article on Seattle Fire coverage explains how the closest-unit system decides who goes.
Queen Anne is policed by SPD's West Precinct. In the data, most of its events fall in the Queen sector, with a smaller share in David sector. Officers reached 43.7% of Queen Anne's Priority 1 calls within seven minutes and 66.5% within ten. That is below the West Precinct's 59.3% — a precinct figure that also covers the dense downtown core — and below the city's 50.5%. See our police response-time analysis.
Each pin above is one dispatch record with usable coordinates inside the Queen Anne map area; click a pin or a feed entry to highlight it. Seattle Fire records appear within a few minutes of dispatch. Police records arrive much later, because the city refreshes the SPD dataset about once a day, so police pins describe earlier events rather than what is happening now. On event nights, a cluster of fire pins around Seattle Center usually reflects standby assignments rather than emergencies. An empty feed only means nothing in the current citywide window fell inside this area.
About the data. Police figures come from the Seattle Police Department's Call Data (data.seattle.gov dataset 33kz-ixgy), October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The raw file has one row per responding unit; we count distinct CAD events, and only dispatched (community-generated) events, not officer on-view activity. Neighborhood assignment uses SPD's own neighborhood label ("Queen Anne"), which does not exactly match the area on this page's map. Response-time shares use Priority 1 events with a recorded time from call queued to first officer on scene. Fire figures come from Seattle Fire Real-Time 911 (dataset kzjm-xkqj) for the same twelve months, counted inside this page's map bounding box. Call types describe what was reported at dispatch, not what responders found.