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Belmont Fire Department
 Community served: Belmont, Mass. Department type: Career firefighters Fire stations (department)1: 3 Fire stations (town): 3 Square miles (town): 4.7 Square miles per station (town): 1.6 [ See rankings ]1 Some communities have more than one fire department. |
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SUMMARY: On-time rate, building fires receiving a response within 6 minutes, 1986-2002: 95.8%[ See rankings ]
On-time rate, early years, 1986-1998: 97.5%
On-time rate, recent years, 1999-2002: 93.1% DETAILS:
| 1986-1998 | 1999-2002 | 1986-2002 | |
| Fires with on-time response |
273 | 162 | 435 |
| Fires with slower response |
7 | 12 | 19 |
| Total building fires studied |
280 | 174 | 454 |
Insurance companies use ratings from ISO, a New Jersey company, to help determine fire insurance premiums. ISO rates communities on a scale from 1 (best) to 10 (no protection). The ratings are based on the community's fire department, water supply, and dispatch communications. The ratings are not based at all on response times. The same scale of 1 to 10 is applied to the
effectiveness of building codes. In a split fire rating, such as 4/9, the second number applies to properties more than 1,000 feet from a hydrant.
ISO fire protection rating, Nov. 2004: 3 ISO building code rating, residential, Nov. 2004: 3 ISO building code rating, commercial, Nov. 2004: 3
Fire spending FY 2003 (town only): $3,536,452 Fire spending as percent of total budget, FY 1987 (town only): 7.8% Fire spending per capita, FY 1987, in 2003 dollars (town only): $155 Change in fire spending per capita, 1987-2003 (town only): -4.8% Change in other municipal spending per capita, 1987-2003, adjusted for inflation (town only): 34.9% Fire spending per housing unit, FY 2003 (town only): $363 Fire spending per square mile, FY 2003 (town only): $751,397
County: Middlesex Population, 2004 (estimate): 23,984 Occupied housing units, 2000: 9,732 Median family income, 1999: $95,057 Population growth, 1990-2000: -2.1% Population growth, 1980-1990: -2.7% Tax base (assessed value per capita), FY 2004: $198,734 Total assessed value, FY 2004: $4,766,358,350 Single-family tax rate, FY 2004: $10.71 About this data
