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Benton: Fire Incidents, Maine (ME)

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

According to the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 14. The highest number of fires - 31 took place in 2018, and the least - 1 in 2008. The data has a growing trend.

32.7% incidents where reported in the morning and 67.3% in the evening. The most fires (20.3%) took place on Saturday, and the least (10.6%) on Friday.
According to the 217 incident reports from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (12.9%) took place during February, and the least (3.7%) in August.
Out of all 1,604 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (66.5%), Fire (13.5%), and Service Call (8.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Benton, ME
• 1,06766.5%Rescue & EMS
• 21713.5%Fire
• 1328.2%Service Call
• 875.4%Good Intent Call
• 462.9%Severe Weather
• 271.7%False Alarm
• 191.2%Hazardous Condition
• 70.4%Special Incident
• 20.1%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (62.7%), and Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires (17.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Benton, ME
• 13662.7%Structure Fires
• 3817.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 3717.1%Outside Fires
• 62.8%Other