The region is the only area around Ballarat which has less than a 90 per cent response rate within its Service Delivery Standard (SDS) time, with 68 per cent success rate according to data released this week by the CFA.

Quarterly figures to December 31 2018 shows there were 41 Hazard Class 2 incidents in the Wendouree region in the three months, of which 28 were answered within the standard eight minutes.

The average time across for response was eight minutes and 56 seconds.

Hazard Class 2 includes significant urban areas which are primarily residential including commercial centres, clusters of industrial and/or high density community services such as schools, correctional facilities, hospitals. Response times are set to be within eight minutes

The SDS time is applied to emergencies, such as building fires, grass and shrub fires, hazardous material spills and leaks, motor vehicle collisions and fire alarms that require an emergency response where CFA vehicles travel with lights and sirens.

In comparison, of the 73 emergencies in the Ballarat City zone, 72 were answered within the eight minute timeframe with an average time of six minutes and 12 seconds.

In Lucas, 21 of the 22 call outs were answered in less than eight minutes.

Other volunteer brigades across the region including Ballarat (93 per cent), Sebastopol (94 per cent) showed percentages well above that of the Wendouree figure which has been put down to cooperation between both career and volunteer firefighters..

CFA District 15 Operations Manager Brett Boatman said while the Wendouree figure was down, he said 90 per cent of calls were answered within nine minutes.

He said with a full-time Lucas station coming on board in the past 12 months, there were constant reviews to see how it could also be utilised in servicing Wendouree-based emergencies.

A strong Sebastopol performance figure points to the success of the station with Mr Boatman saying discussions would continue with the City of Ballarat as to growth corridor positions for any future new stations.

"The results speaks to our fire model between career and volunteer fire brigades," he said.

"We have two trucks go to every call. We are a network of fire brigades, it's not about any one brigade doing the heavy lifting, networking is the key."

The CFA's state-wide compliance sits at 87.5 per cent slightly lower than the 90 per cent target. In the three months period it responded to 6297 incidents.

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