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Darlington: Fire Incidents, Maryland (MD)

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 30. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 60 took place in 2008, and the least - 11 in 2002. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 10 minutes. This is higher compared to the state median value.


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

Darlington:	10 minutes
Port Deposit:	11 minutes
Havre de Grace:	1 minutes
Rising Sun:	9 minutes
Perryville:	9 minutes
Aberdeen:	7 minutes
Bel Air:	7 minutes
North East:	10 minutes
Fallston:	8 minutes

33.1% incidents where reported in the morning and 66.9% in the evening. The most fires (18.3%) took place on Thursday, and the least (8.9%) on Wednesday.
Based on the 507 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (17.0%) took place during March, and the least (3.4%) in May.
Out of all 4,021 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Overpressure Rupture (62.5%), Service Call (14.7%), and Fire (12.6%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Darlington, MD
• 2,51562.5%Rescue & EMS
• 59114.7%Good Intent Call
• 50712.6%Fire
• 2355.8%Hazardous Condition
• 912.3%Service Call
• 701.7%False Alarm
• 70.2%Severe Weather
• 50.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (64.5%), and Outside Fires (20.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Darlington, MD
• 32764.5%Structure Fires
• 10220.1%Outside Fires
• 5110.1%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 275.3%Other