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Calabash: Fire Incidents, North Carolina (NC)

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

According to the data from the years 2003 - 2018 the average number of fires per year is 65. The highest number of fire incidents - 88 took place in 2014, and the least - 40 in 2017. The data has an increasing 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 Calabash, NC compared to nearest cities:
(Note: Based on data for all years, including only cities with at least 500 fire incidents)

Calabash:	9 minutes
Sunset Beach:	8 minutes
Ocean Isle Beach:	8 minutes
Shallotte:	8 minutes
Tabor City:	9 minutes
Oak Island:	9 minutes
Bolivia:	11 minutes
Boiling Spring Lakes:	9 minutes
Whiteville:	9 minutes

29.2% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.8% in the evening. The most fires (16.6%) took place on Saturday, and the least (13.2%) on Sunday.
Based on the 1,044 fire incident reports from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (12.5%) took place during April, and the least (6.1%) in September.
Out of all 8,676 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (63.0%), Good Intent Call (14.0%), and Fire (12.0%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Calabash, NC
• 5,46963.0%Rescue & EMS
• 1,21114.0%Good Intent Call
• 1,04412.0%Fire
• 3554.1%Service Call
• 3413.9%False Alarm
• 2232.6%Hazardous Condition
• 150.2%Severe Weather
• 140.2%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (62.0%), and Outside Fires (24.4%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Calabash, NC
• 64762.0%Structure Fires
• 25524.4%Outside Fires
• 787.5%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 646.1%Other