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Claremont: 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 fires per year is 44. The highest number of fire incidents - 101 took place in 2006, and the least - 8 in 2017. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 5 minutes. This is lower than the North Carolina median value.


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

Claremont:	5 minutes
Conover:	5 minutes
Catawba:	6 minutes
Newton:	5 minutes
Maiden:	6 minutes
Hickory:	5 minutes
Sherrills Ford:	5 minutes
Taylorsville:	6 minutes
Denver:	6 minutes

26.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 73.8% in the evening. The most fires (18.0%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.2%) on Thursday.
Based on the 756 fire incidents from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (12.8%) took place during March, and the least (4.4%) in September.
Out of all 3,919 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Hazardous Condition (25.1%), Fire (19.3%), and Rescue & EMS (18.7%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Claremont, NC
• 98225.1%Hazardous Condition
• 75619.3%Fire
• 73218.7%Rescue & EMS
• 65916.8%Service Call
• 40910.4%False Alarm
• 3519.0%Good Intent Call
• 160.4%Severe Weather
• 70.2%Overpressure Rupture
• 70.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Outside Fires (43.7%), and Structure Fires (36.2%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Claremont, NC
• 33043.7%Outside Fires
• 27436.2%Structure Fires
• 11515.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 374.9%Other