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Manchester: Fire Incidents, Pennsylvania (PA)

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 31. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 72 took place in 2005, and the least - 6 in 2002. The data has an increasing trend.

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


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

Manchester:	8 minutes
York:	4 minutes
Dover:	9 minutes
Marietta:	8 minutes
Elizabethtown:	9 minutes
Middletown:	9 minutes
Wrightsville:	9 minutes
Mount Joy:	8 minutes
Columbia:	6 minutes

31.6% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.4% in the evening. The most fires (17.1%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.6%) on Thursday.
According to the 525 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (11.4%) took place during October, and the least (5.3%) in February.
Out of all 1,520 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (34.5%), Hazardous Condition (20.6%), and Good Intent Call (13.9%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Manchester, PA
• 52534.5%Fire
• 31320.6%Hazardous Condition
• 21113.9%Good Intent Call
• 18712.3%Rescue & EMS
• 1318.6%Service Call
• 1207.9%False Alarm
• 161.1%Severe Weather
• 110.7%Special Incident
• 60.4%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (63.4%), and Outside Fires (21.7%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Manchester, PA
• 33363.4%Structure Fires
• 11421.7%Outside Fires
• 479.0%Other
• 315.9%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires