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Holly Ridge: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

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 33. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 82 took place in 2011, and the least - 3 in 2006. The data has an increasing trend.

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


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

Holly Ridge:	9 minutes
Sneads Ferry:	10 minutes
Rocky Point:	11 minutes
Jacksonville:	9 minutes
Burgaw:	11 minutes
Castle Hayne:	6 minutes
Wilmington:	5 minutes
Swansboro:	8 minutes
Richlands:	11 minutes

29.3% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.7% in the evening. The most fires (16.7%) took place on Monday, and the least (10.8%) on Saturday.
According to the 563 reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.7%) took place during March, and the least (3.6%) in September.
Out of all 1,729 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (32.6%), Hazardous Condition (21.6%), and Good Intent Call (18.2%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Holly Ridge, NC
• 56332.6%Fire
• 37421.6%Hazardous Condition
• 31518.2%Good Intent Call
• 25314.6%Rescue & EMS
• 1388.0%False Alarm
• 764.4%Service Call
• 80.5%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (42.1%), and Outside Fires (38.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Holly Ridge, NC
• 23742.1%Structure Fires
• 21738.5%Outside Fires
• 5710.1%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 529.2%Other