FDNY Historical Monthly Response Times by Borough and Incident Type

Average response times to incidents reported by the Fire Department of New York, aggregated by year, month, incident classification, and borough. The dataset is designated as historical and is no longer being updated. It was published by data.cityofnewyork.us.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in AVERAGERESPONSETIME across different INCIDENTCLASSIFICATION categories over sequential YEARMONTH periods.
• Compare emergency response efficiency between INCIDENTBOROUGH locations using AVERAGERESPONSETIME and INCIDENTCOUNT.
• Model the relationship between INCIDENTCOUNT and AVERAGERESPONSETIME to assess system load impacts on response speed.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated by multiple dimensions: YEARMONTH, INCIDENTCLASSIFICATION, and INCIDENTBOROUGH.
• Provides average response times alongside incident counts for context.

Limitations

• Dataset is historical and no longer updated, limiting analysis to past periods only.
• Aggregated nature obscures granular, per-incident details available in the successor dataset.

Provenance

Source

Fire Department of New York (FDNY), via data.cityofnewyork.us.

Collection Method

Aggregated from operational dispatch systems.

Freshness

Historical, no longer updated.

Geography

New York City boroughs.