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Douglassville: Fire Incidents, Pennsylvania (PA)

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 45. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 121 took place in 2009, and the least - 4 in 2015. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 8 minutes. This is higher than the Pennsylvania median value.


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

Douglassville:	8 minutes
Birdsboro:	9 minutes
Pottstown:	6 minutes
Boyertown:	7 minutes
Spring City:	6 minutes
Reading:	3 minutes
Wyomissing:	6 minutes
Mohnton:	9 minutes
Phoenixville:	6 minutes

31.4% incidents where reported in the morning and 68.6% in the evening. The most fires (16.6%) took place on Saturday, and the least (11.9%) on Thursday.
According to the 724 fires from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (18.2%) took place during March, and the least (5.4%) in September.
Out of all 2,266 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (32.0%), Rescue & EMS (19.9%), and Hazardous Condition (17.6%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Douglassville, PA
• 72432.0%Fire
• 45219.9%Rescue & EMS
• 39817.6%Hazardous Condition
• 32714.4%Good Intent Call
• 1828.0%Service Call
• 1255.5%False Alarm
• 301.3%Severe Weather
• 261.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (46.1%), and Outside Fires (33.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Douglassville, PA
• 33446.1%Structure Fires
• 24133.3%Outside Fires
• 7510.4%Other
• 7410.2%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires