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Somerville Fire Deparment
 Community served: Somerville, Mass. Department type: Career firefighters Fire stations (department)1: 5 Fire stations (town): 5 Square miles (town): 4.1 Square miles per station (town): 0.8 [ 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: 99.1%[ See rankings ]
On-time rate, early years, 1986-1998: 99.0%
On-time rate, recent years, 1999-2002: 99.4% DETAILS:
| 1986-1998 | 1999-2002 | 1986-2002 | |
| Fires with on-time response |
606 | 170 | 776 |
| Fires with slower response |
6 | 1 | 7 |
| Total building fires studied |
612 | 171 | 783 |
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): $10,646,105 Fire spending as percent of total budget, FY 1987 (town only): 7.2% Fire spending per capita, FY 1987, in 2003 dollars (town only): $115 Change in fire spending per capita, 1987-2003 (town only): 18.8% Change in other municipal spending per capita, 1987-2003, adjusted for inflation (town only): 15.2% Fire spending per housing unit, FY 2003 (town only): $337 Fire spending per square mile, FY 2003 (town only): $2,589,159
County: Middlesex Population, 2004 (estimate): 77,985 Occupied housing units, 2000: 31,555 Median family income, 1999: $51,243 Population growth, 1990-2000: 1.7% Population growth, 1980-1990: 0.5% Tax base (assessed value per capita), FY 2004: $84,809 Total assessed value, FY 2004: $6,613,854,900 Single-family tax rate, FY 2004: N/A About this data
