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Evidence-grade fire service planning | Method: Dr. Priya Singh, VNIT Nagpur (3 SCIE publications, PhD 2022)

Fire Service Assessment Snapshot: Delhi (NCT)

Prepared 14 July 2026 | Based on publicly available data

Executive summary

Delhi (NCT) operates 37 fire station(s) serving a population of 16,787,941 (Census 2011, National Capital Territory) across 1483 km². Assessed against India's national provisioning norms, the city's largest deficit appears under the SFAC standard: a shortfall of 111.3 stations (75% service gap). Under the research-derived unified benchmark (3 km = 7 min = 30 km² per station), the city requires 49.4 stations against 37 existing. Spatial coverage analysis shows only 30% of the city's area lies within effective road reach of a fire station at the 7-minute response benchmark (and 17% at the stricter 5-minute benchmark).

30%
area within effective reach (7-min / 3 km benchmark)
111.3
station shortfall (worst norm: SFAC)
37
existing fire stations

1. Benchmark gap assessment

NormRequiredExisting ShortfallService gap
URDPFI (1 station per 200,000 population)83.93746.956%
SFAC (1 station per 10 km²)148.337111.375%
Unified benchmark (1 station per 30 km²; 3 km = 7 min)49.43712.425%

Method: availability-index benchmark assessment per Singh, Sabnani & Kapse (2021), International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 63:102432. The unified benchmark reconciles the SFAC response-time norm (5-7 min) with the URDPFI distance norm (3-4 km) using 1,75,056 real travel-time measurements.

2. Spatial coverage

Response benchmarkStraight-line coverage Effective road coverage*
5 minutes (2 km)23%17%
7 minutes (3 km)36%30%

*Effective road coverage applies the measured network-to-Euclidean service-area ratio (~70%) established in the underlying research: actual road-network reach is systematically smaller than the straight-line buffers conventionally used in planning documents.

(unnamed fire station)Fire Station(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)Sector 6 Fire StationFire Station Chanakyapuri(unnamed fire station)Fire Station Naraina(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)FIRE STATIONFire Brigade StationCBD Shahdara Fire StationDelhi Fire Service ,Kalyanvas Fire StationRoop Nagar Fire StationHari Nagar Fire StationKeshavpuram Fire StationJanakpuri Fire StationMoti Nagar Fire StationFire Safety Management AcademyFire Station Shankar Road(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)Barakhamba Road Fire StationFire Station 1Fire Station Gokulpuri(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)(unnamed fire station)Safdarjung Fire StationFire Station Nehru PlaceIndira Gandhi International Airport Fire Station

Schematic coverage map: red rings = straight-line 3 km reach; green = effective road reach; dashed outline = city boundary.

3. Station registry used

StationCoordinatesPosition status
(unnamed fire station)28.57280, 77.16698verified
Fire Station28.56857, 77.18431verified
(unnamed fire station)28.64708, 77.18121verified
(unnamed fire station)28.66232, 77.07963verified
Sector 6 Fire Station28.59732, 77.06402verified
Fire Station Chanakyapuri28.60264, 77.19036verified
(unnamed fire station)28.62143, 77.20764verified
Fire Station Naraina28.63300, 77.13900verified
(unnamed fire station)28.65948, 77.21610verified
(unnamed fire station)28.73741, 77.15392verified
(unnamed fire station)28.65182, 77.23368verified
FIRE STATION28.68617, 77.28591verified
Fire Brigade Station28.69824, 77.20495verified
CBD Shahdara Fire Station28.66181, 77.29671verified
Delhi Fire Service ,Kalyanvas Fire Station28.61723, 77.30917verified
Roop Nagar Fire Station28.68501, 77.20291verified
Hari Nagar Fire Station28.62229, 77.11014verified
Keshavpuram Fire Station28.68151, 77.14781verified
Janakpuri Fire Station28.62121, 77.09111verified
Moti Nagar Fire Station28.65986, 77.14558verified
Fire Safety Management Academy28.70689, 77.12853verified
Fire Station Shankar Road28.64070, 77.17576verified
(unnamed fire station)28.61226, 76.97677verified
(unnamed fire station)28.67456, 77.28413verified
(unnamed fire station)28.65923, 77.14394verified
(unnamed fire station)28.62050, 77.33681verified
(unnamed fire station)28.66905, 77.10026verified
Barakhamba Road Fire Station28.63201, 77.22336verified
Fire Station 128.54824, 77.09476verified
Fire Station Gokulpuri28.70039, 77.29110verified
(unnamed fire station)28.62518, 77.30725verified
(unnamed fire station)28.73416, 77.17497verified
(unnamed fire station)28.68539, 77.31516verified
(unnamed fire station)28.73101, 77.12085verified
Safdarjung Fire Station28.58633, 77.21331verified
Fire Station Nehru Place28.54925, 77.25673verified
Indira Gandhi International Airport Fire Station28.56657, 77.09878verified

37 of Delhi Fire Service's roughly 64 stations are mapped in public data (OpenStreetMap); unmapped stations are not shown, so real coverage is better than displayed.

4. Recommendations

1. Close the benchmark gap: plan for 12.4 additional station(s) to meet the unified benchmark.
2. Commission a full assessment (network isochrones on the real road graph, incident-log hotspot analysis, population-weighted coverage, optimal siting) to convert this snapshot into a DPR/NDRF-proposal-grade evidence pack.
3. Funding alignment: the MHA "Scheme for Expansion and Modernization of Fire Services in the States" (launched July 2023, ₹5,000 Cr earmarked under NDRF) requires exactly this class of evidence-backed gap justification.

Method & credentials

Singh P.P., Sabnani C.S., Kapse V.S. (2021). Interpreting benchmark assessment of emergency fire service using geoinformation technology. Int. J. Disaster Risk Reduction 63:102432.

Singh P.P., Sabnani C.S., Kapse V.S. (2021). Hotspot analysis of structure fires in urban agglomeration. Fire (MDPI) 4:38.

Singh P.P., Sabnani C.S., Kapse V.S. (2021). Urbanization and urban fire dynamics using GIS and remote sensing. Arabian Journal of Geosciences 14:2172.

Singh P. (2022). Fire Service in Urban Area: A Case Study of Nagpur City. PhD thesis, VNIT Nagpur.

Disclaimer: This snapshot uses publicly available data (OpenStreetMap, Census of India, public directories); station positions flagged "approximate" are placed at locality level. It is indicative, intended to scope a full assessment, and is not a statutory fire audit. This copy is a SAMPLE for demonstration.