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Monrovia: 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 fires per year is 38. The highest number of reported fires - 84 took place in 2007, and the least - 12 in 2014. The data has a rising trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 8 minutes. This is similar to the Maryland median value.


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

Monrovia:	8 minutes
New Market:	9 minutes
Mount Airy:	13 minutes
Damascus:	8 minutes
Frederick:	7 minutes
Walkersville:	8 minutes
Germantown:	6 minutes
Jefferson:	9 minutes
Union Bridge:	11 minutes

34.6% incidents where reported in the morning and 65.4% in the evening. The most fires (16.5%) took place on Tuesday, and the least (12.1%) on Monday.
According to the 642 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (12.3%) took place during November, and the least (5.5%) in October.
Out of all 2,351 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (32.9%), Fire (27.3%), and Good Intent Call (17.0%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Monrovia, MD
• 77432.9%Rescue & EMS
• 64227.3%Fire
• 39917.0%Good Intent Call
• 28712.2%Hazardous Condition
• 1285.4%Service Call
• 1054.5%False Alarm
• 100.4%Special Incident
• 50.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (49.2%), and Outside Fires (29.4%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Monrovia, MD
• 31649.2%Structure Fires
• 18929.4%Outside Fires
• 7211.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 6510.1%Other