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Parkesburg: 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 32. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 105 took place in 2008, and the least - 6 in 2013. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 9 minutes. This is higher than the state median value.


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

Parkesburg:	9 minutes
Christiana:	8 minutes
Gap:	8 minutes
Coatesville:	5 minutes
Honey Brook:	8 minutes
Paradise:	7 minutes
Avondale:	9 minutes
Downingtown:	8 minutes
Oxford:	10 minutes

36.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 63.8% in the evening. The most fires (16.4%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.0%) on Thursday.
According to the 544 fire incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (15.8%) took place during March, and the least (5.1%) in September.
Out of all 1,266 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (43.0%), Hazardous Condition (33.3%), and Service Call (7.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Parkesburg, PA
• 54443.0%Fire
• 42233.3%Hazardous Condition
• 917.2%Service Call
• 796.2%Rescue & EMS
• 655.1%False Alarm
• 604.7%Good Intent Call
• 30.2%Special Incident
• 20.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (61.4%), and Outside Fires (21.9%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Parkesburg, PA
• 33461.4%Structure Fires
• 11921.9%Outside Fires
• 5710.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 346.3%Other