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Burgaw: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

2002 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2002 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 53. The highest number of reported fires - 83 took place in 2013, and the least - 11 in 2002. The data has an increasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 11 minutes. This is higher than the state median value.


The median response time in Burgaw, NC compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Burgaw:	11 minutes
Rocky Point:	11 minutes
Wallace:	8 minutes
Castle Hayne:	6 minutes
Rose Hill:	9 minutes
Holly Ridge:	9 minutes
Leland:	10 minutes
Wilmington:	5 minutes
Beulaville:	10 minutes

29.9% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.1% in the evening. The most fires (16.3%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.3%) on Thursday.
Based on the 906 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.2%) took place during March, and the least (5.3%) in September.
Out of all 5,426 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Good Intent Call (24.1%), Rescue & EMS (23.6%), and Hazardous Condition (18.0%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Burgaw, NC
• 1,30624.1%Good Intent Call
• 1,28223.6%Rescue & EMS
• 97418.0%Hazardous Condition
• 90616.7%Fire
• 4578.4%Service Call
• 4578.4%False Alarm
• 270.5%Severe Weather
• 130.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (46.4%), and Outside Fires (34.7%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Burgaw, NC
• 42046.4%Structure Fires
• 31434.7%Outside Fires
• 16217.9%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 101.1%Other