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Upper Marlboro: Fire Incidents, Maryland (MD)

2003 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

Based on the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 40. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 90 took place in 2012, and the least - 0 in 2005. The data has a growing trend.

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


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

Upper Marlboro:	9 minutes
Largo:	7 minutes
Dunkirk:	7 minutes
Clinton:	7 minutes
Suitland:	6 minutes
Brandywine:	10 minutes
Bowie:	7 minutes
Landover:	5 minutes
Lanham:	7 minutes

33.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 66.8% in the evening. The most fires (16.4%) took place on Wednesday, and the least (12.5%) on Friday.
According to the 641 reports from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (12.0%) took place during July, and the least (5.0%) in May.
Out of all 11,246 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (77.7%), Fire (5.7%), and False Alarm (5.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Upper Marlboro, MD
• 8,74177.7%Rescue & EMS
• 6415.7%Fire
• 5885.2%False Alarm
• 4914.4%Hazardous Condition
• 3943.5%Good Intent Call
• 3743.3%Service Call
• 130.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (42.6%), and Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires (23.4%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Upper Marlboro, MD
• 27342.6%Structure Fires
• 15023.4%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 12719.8%Outside Fires
• 9114.2%Other