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Miami Gardens: Fire Incidents, Florida (FL)

2008 - 2018 National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) incidents

According to the data from the years 2008 - 2018 the average number of fire incidents per year is 248. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 327 took place in 2008, and the least - 155 in 2015. The data has a decreasing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 6 minutes. This is close to the state median value.


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

Miami Gardens:	6 minutes
West Park:	5 minutes
Hollywood:	6 minutes
Hallandale:	5 minutes
North Miami Beach:	6 minutes
Miramar:	6 minutes
North Miami:	6 minutes
Cooper City:	6 minutes
Pembroke Pines:	5 minutes

36.0% incidents where reported in the morning and 64.0% in the evening. The most fires (16.6%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.2%) on Thursday.
According to the 2,725 fires from years 2008 - 2018 most fires (10.5%) took place during May, and the least (6.7%) in November.
Out of all 72,773 cases reported during the years 2008 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (80.6%), Good Intent Call (5.0%), and False Alarm (4.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Miami Gardens, FL
• 58,69080.6%Rescue & EMS
• 3,6515.0%Good Intent Call
• 3,3064.5%False Alarm
• 2,7253.7%Fire
• 2,4423.4%Service Call
• 1,9412.7%Hazardous Condition
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (35.3%), and Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires (31.3%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Miami Gardens, FL
• 96235.3%Structure Fires
• 85231.3%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 84631.0%Outside Fires
• 652.4%Other