Community Assessment: New Hanover County Fire Rescue

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Last Updated: Feb. 13, 2018, 3:37 a.m.

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Structure Hazard Level Distribution by Travel Time

Effective response force coverage is a beta feature of FireCARES that utilizes the NFPA 1710 standard for determining coverage and includes an estimated 3 minuntes for turnout time and alarm processing, leaving a total of 5 minutes drive time for low/medium/unknown hazard types and 7 minutes of drive time for high hazard types. Please contact us if you have questions.

Effective Response Force Coverage

Community Risk Assessment

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Fire Risk

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Fire Spread Risk

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Death and Injury Risk

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Low: less than 25% of departments have an equal or smaller risk value.

Medium: 25-75% of departments have a smaller risk value.

High: over 75% of departments have an equal or smaller risk value.

Summary

Department Type

Combination

NFPA Region

South

FDID

06513

State

Phone

(910) 798-7420

Fax

(910) 798-7052

IAFF

4576

Official Website

Structure Hazard Level Distribution

52,482 total structures protected

Estimations

Number of fires per year

Average since 2010

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Predicted

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Beyond room/floor

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Beyond structure

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Deaths & injuries per year

Average since 2010

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Description

The New Hanover County Fire Rescue fire department is a combination department located in the South NFPA region and headquartered in Wilmington, NC.

96,191

Protected Population

275.49mi²

Community Size

Annual Structure Fires

Annual structure fire counts for the New Hanover County Fire Rescue based on the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS).

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3 Stations

Station Name	Address
Ogden Volunteer Fire Department Porters Neck Substation	907 Porters Neck Road
Ogden Volunteer Fire Department	7375 Market Street
Myrtle Grove Station- NHC Fire Rescue Sta. 18	5636 Carolina Beach Road

FireCARES

New Hanover County Fire Rescue

Wilmington, NC, 28403

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Last Updated: Feb. 13, 2018, 3:37 a.m.

Structure Hazard Level Distribution by Travel Time

Effective Response Force Coverage

Community Risk Assessment

Summary

Structure Hazard Level Distribution

Estimations

Description

96,191

Protected Population

275.49mi²

Community Size

Annual Structure Fires

3 Stations

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