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Boston Fire Department
 Community served: Boston, Mass. Department type: Career firefighters Fire stations (department)1: 34 Fire stations (town): 34 Square miles (town): 49.6 Square miles per station (town): 1.5 [ 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: 97.7%[ See rankings ]
On-time rate, early years, 1986-1998: 97.9%
On-time rate, recent years, 1999-2002: 96.6% DETAILS:
| 1986-1998 | 1999-2002 | 1986-2002 | |
| Fires with on-time response |
17,539 | 4,147 | 21,686 |
| Fires with slower response |
373 | 147 | 520 |
| Total building fires studied |
17,912 | 4,294 | 22,206 |
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: 2 ISO building code rating, residential, Nov. 2004: 5 ISO building code rating, commercial, Nov. 2004: 5
Fire spending FY 2003 (town only): $142,282,613 Fire spending as percent of total budget, FY 1987 (town only): 6.2% Fire spending per capita, FY 1987, in 2003 dollars (town only): $191 Change in fire spending per capita, 1987-2003 (town only): 25.5% Change in other municipal spending per capita, 1987-2003, adjusted for inflation (town only): -1.7% Fire spending per housing unit, FY 2003 (town only): $594 Fire spending per square mile, FY 2003 (town only): $2,871,415
County: Suffolk Population, 2004 (estimate): 595,084 Occupied housing units, 2000: 239,528 Median family income, 1999: $44,151 Population growth, 1990-2000: 2.6% Population growth, 1980-1990: 0.6% Tax base (assessed value per capita), FY 2004: $111,147 Total assessed value, FY 2004: $66,141,729,727 Single-family tax rate, FY 2004: N/A About this data
