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Carthage: 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 fires per year is 86. The highest number of fires - 141 took place in 2011, and the least - 5 in 2003. The data has an increasing trend.

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


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

Carthage:	9 minutes
Cameron:	8 minutes
Vass:	7 minutes
Pinehurst:	6 minutes
Southern Pines:	5 minutes
Robbins:	9 minutes
Aberdeen:	5 minutes
Pinebluff:	8 minutes
Sanford:	6 minutes

29.8% incidents where reported in the morning and 70.2% in the evening. The most fires (16.2%) took place on Tuesday, and the least (12.5%) on Wednesday.
According to the 1,468 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (13.5%) took place during March, and the least (5.7%) in October.
Out of all 6,882 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Rescue & EMS (33.4%), Fire (21.3%), and Good Intent Call (13.8%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Carthage, NC
• 2,30233.4%Rescue & EMS
• 1,46821.3%Fire
• 94813.8%Good Intent Call
• 77211.2%Hazardous Condition
• 5187.5%False Alarm
• 4626.7%Severe Weather
• 3915.7%Service Call
• 180.3%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most reports belonged to: Structure Fires (50.3%), and Outside Fires (38.5%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Carthage, NC
• 73850.3%Structure Fires
• 56538.5%Outside Fires
• 1117.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires
• 543.7%Other