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Dallas: 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 47. The highest number of fires - 153 took place in 2018, and the least - 0 in 2003. The data has a rising trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 8 minutes. This is higher than the North Carolina median value.


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

Dallas:	8 minutes
Gastonia:	6 minutes
Stanley:	8 minutes
Mount Holly:	7 minutes
Belmont:	7 minutes
Kings Mountain:	7 minutes
Lincolnton:	6 minutes
Cherryville:	7 minutes
Denver:	6 minutes

28.8% incidents where reported in the morning and 71.2% in the evening. The most fires (16.5%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.1%) on Tuesday.
According to the 792 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.3%) took place during March, and the least (4.7%) in October.
Out of all 4,890 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (28.3%), Hazardous Condition (22.6%), and Fire (16.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Dallas, NC
• 1,38428.3%Rescue & EMS
• 1,10322.6%Hazardous Condition
• 79216.2%Fire
• 78816.1%Good Intent Call
• 4409.0%Service Call
• 3437.0%False Alarm
• 240.5%Severe Weather
• 100.2%Special Incident
• 60.1%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (60.4%), and Outside Fires (26.0%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Dallas, NC
• 47860.4%Structure Fires
• 20626.0%Outside Fires
• 8410.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 243.0%Other