Clay, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

Clay is one of the busiest municipalities in this archive. The last 30 days produced 1,893 logged radio calls there, about 63.1 a day, and the 90 day total stands at 5,214. That is 3rd out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, Clay is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 44.2 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 32 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Clay from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 14.4 percent, Fire 10.6 percent and General radio traffic 30.9 percent.

The Clay radio day starts early. The 11 a.m. hour is the single busiest, at 6.1 percent of the last 90 days, and Thursday leads the week at 16.1 percent. Things are thinnest in the 1 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates Clay. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are vehicle crash (556), medical call (546), domestic complaint (286), fire alarm (190) and larceny (170).

Tune a scanner to Clay and most of what you hear is Sheriffs Office, which carried 2,003 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are New York State Police, Moyers Corners Fire Department and NOVA Ambulance.

Counted from the CNY Signal scanner archive, not an agency call log. Volume tracks how much of the time our receivers were up as well as real activity, so we publish shares, peaks and rankings for Clay rather than period over period trends.