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Dillsburg: 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 46. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 118 took place in 2010, and the least - 16 in 2005. The data has a dropping trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 10 minutes. This is higher than the Pennsylvania median value.


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

Dillsburg:	10 minutes
Mechanicsburg:	9 minutes
Carlisle:	7 minutes
Camp Hill:	8 minutes
New Cumberland:	9 minutes
Dover:	9 minutes
Enola:	8 minutes
Steelton:	7 minutes
Harrisburg:	6 minutes

36.5% incidents where reported in the morning and 63.5% in the evening. The most fires (15.8%) took place on Friday, and the least (11.5%) on Thursday.
According to the 739 fires from years 2003 - 2018 most fires (13.8%) took place during January, and the least (4.7%) in June.
Out of all 1,461 cases reported during the years 2003 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (50.6%), Hazardous Condition (21.1%), and Rescue & EMS (8.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Dillsburg, PA
• 73950.6%Fire
• 30921.1%Hazardous Condition
• 1248.5%Rescue & EMS
• 1137.7%Good Intent Call
• 775.3%False Alarm
• 755.1%Service Call
• 141.0%Special Incident
• 70.5%Severe Weather
• 30.2%Overpressure Rupture
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (65.1%), and Outside Fires (14.1%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Dillsburg, PA
• 48165.1%Structure Fires
• 10414.1%Outside Fires
• 10313.9%Other
• 516.9%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires