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Solomons: 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 31. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 70 took place in 2009, and the least - 1 in 2012. The data has a decreasing 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 Solomons, MD compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Solomons:	9 minutes
Lusby:	8 minutes
California:	6 minutes
Lexington Park:	6 minutes
Leonardtown:	8 minutes
Prince Frederick:	6 minutes
Mechanicsville:	10 minutes
Charlotte Hall:	10 minutes
Huntingtown:	7 minutes

32.6% incidents where reported in the morning and 67.4% in the evening. The most fires (17.6%) took place on Sunday, and the least (12.4%) on Thursday.
Based on the 533 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (13.7%) took place during February, and the least (5.1%) in August.
Out of all 4,393 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (53.2%), Good Intent Call (14.9%), and Fire (12.1%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Solomons, MD
• 2,33753.2%Rescue & EMS
• 65414.9%Good Intent Call
• 53312.1%Fire
• 47410.8%Hazardous Condition
• 1984.5%Service Call
• 1914.3%False Alarm
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (64.4%), and Outside Fires (16.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Solomons, MD
• 34364.4%Structure Fires
• 8716.3%Outside Fires
• 5510.3%Other
• 489.0%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires