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Dover: Fire Incidents, Pennsylvania (PA)

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 98. The highest number of reported fire incidents - 221 took place in 2006, and the least - 15 in 2002. The data has a growing trend.

The median response time based on all reported fire incidents is 9 minutes. This is higher than the Pennsylvania median value.


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

Dover:	9 minutes
York:	4 minutes
Manchester:	8 minutes
Spring Grove:	10 minutes
Dillsburg:	10 minutes
Red Lion:	8 minutes
Middletown:	9 minutes
Hanover:	5 minutes
New Cumberland:	9 minutes

33.8% incidents where reported in the morning and 66.2% in the evening. The most fires (16.5%) took place on Saturday, and the least (12.9%) on Thursday.
According to the 1,671 fires from years 2002 - 2018 most fires (14.5%) took place during April, and the least (5.9%) in October.
Out of all 3,757 cases reported during the years 2002 - 2018, the most belonged to the categories: Fire (44.5%), Hazardous Condition (34.0%), and Good Intent Call (7.5%).


• Incident types reported to NFIRS in Dover, PA
• 1,67144.5%Fire
• 1,27734.0%Hazardous Condition
• 2817.5%Good Intent Call
• 2757.3%Service Call
• 1664.4%Rescue & EMS
• 591.6%False Alarm
• 180.5%Severe Weather
• 50.1%Overpressure Rupture
• 50.1%Special Incident
When looking into fire subcategories, the most incidents belonged to: Structure Fires (61.4%), and Outside Fires (21.8%).


• Fire incident types reported to NFIRS in Dover, PA
• 1,02661.4%Structure Fires
• 36521.8%Outside Fires
• 1539.2%Other
• 1277.6%Mobile Property/Vehicle Fires