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Shallotte: 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 90. The highest number of reported fires - 164 took place in 2006, and the least - 36 in 2017. The data has a declining trend.

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


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

Shallotte:	8 minutes
Ocean Isle Beach:	8 minutes
Sunset Beach:	8 minutes
Calabash:	9 minutes
Bolivia:	11 minutes
Oak Island:	9 minutes
Boiling Spring Lakes:	9 minutes
Leland:	10 minutes
Carolina Beach:	6 minutes

29.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.5% in the evening. The most fires (16.0%) took place on Monday, and the least (12.4%) on Tuesday.
Based on the 1,528 incident reports from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (10.6%) took place during April, and the least (5.8%) in November.
Out of all 6,370 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (40.4%), Fire (24.0%), and Hazardous Condition (12.3%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Shallotte, NC
• 2,57140.4%Rescue & EMS
• 1,52824.0%Fire
• 78112.3%Hazardous Condition
• 70111.0%Good Intent Call
• 4036.3%False Alarm
• 3485.5%Service Call
• 190.3%Special Incident
• 160.3%Severe Weather
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (54.1%), and Outside Fires (29.8%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Shallotte, NC
• 82654.1%Structure Fires
• 45629.8%Outside Fires
• 19512.8%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 513.3%Other