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North Providence: Fire Incidents, Rhode Island (RI)

2011 - 2015 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2011 - 2015 the average number of fire incidents per year is 113. The highest number of fires - 188 took place in 2011, and the least - 85 in 2012. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 4 minutes. This is lower than the state median value.


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

North Providence:	4 minutes
Providence:	5 minutes
Central Falls:	2 minutes
Lincoln:	4 minutes
Smithfield:	6 minutes
Cranston:	4 minutes
East Providence:	5 minutes
Cumberland:	6 minutes
Seekonk:	6 minutes

30.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.0% in the evening. The most fires (18.8%) took place on Sunday, and the least (12.1%) on Friday.
Based on the 564 fire incidents from years 2011 - 2015 most fires (14.7%) took place during April, and the least (6.0%) in February.
Out of all 6,823 cases reported during the years 2011 - 2015, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (49.9%), Hazardous Condition (17.3%), and False Alarm (9.3%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in North Providence, RI
• 3,40449.9%Rescue & EMS
• 1,18117.3%Hazardous Condition
• 6329.3%False Alarm
• 6129.0%Service Call
• 5648.3%Fire
• 4186.1%Good Intent Call
• 80.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (44.3%), and Outside Fires (37.9%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in North Providence, RI
• 25044.3%Structure Fires
• 21437.9%Outside Fires
• 539.4%Other
• 478.3%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires