In 2025, fire departments serving Candor responded to 33 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $215K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Candor's departments reported 33 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 65 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 73% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
324 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.6M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 62 | — | |
| 2022 | 91 | +46.8% | |
| 2023 | 81 | -11.0% | |
| 2024 | 57 | -29.6% | |
| 2025* | 33 | — |
* Well below Candor's usual volume. That almost always means one or more departments didn't submit a full year to NFIRS, not that fires dropped, so no year-over-year change is shown for it.
For the 1 building fires Candor departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 168 building fires investigators classified across 2021–2025. The room or location where ignition occurred — kitchens, bedrooms, exterior, vehicle areas — tells you where to focus prevention.
| # | Area of origin | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 42 | 25.0% | |
| 2 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 30 | 17.9% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 22 | 13.1% | |
| 4 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 17 | 10.1% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 15 | 8.9% | |
| 6 | Wildland, woods | 12 | 7.1% | |
| 7 | Cooking area, kitchen | 8 | 4.8% | |
| 8 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 5 | 3.0% | |
| 9 | Outside area, other | 4 | 2.4% | |
| 10 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 1.2% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 11 | 6.5% |
NFIRS Heat Source (HEAT_SOURC) — the physical thing that started it. Spark or ember from operating equipment, an open flame, smoking materials, or hot embers from a fireplace are the leading culprits nationwide. Here's the Candor mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 62 | 36.9% | |
| 2 | Cigarette | 23 | 13.7% | |
| 3 | Match | 22 | 13.1% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 11 | 6.5% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 9 | 5.4% | |
| 6 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 7 | 4.2% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 6 | 3.6% | |
| 8 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 6 | 3.6% | |
| 9 | Heat source: other | 4 | 2.4% | |
| 10 | Heat, spark from friction | 3 | 1.8% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 15 | 8.9% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Candor departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $215,000 | Fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $5,000 | Self-propelled motor home or recreational vehicle | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Candor sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 13,923 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,358 | 26.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,181 | 26.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 969 | 23.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 750 | 42.6 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 697 | 25.6 mi | |
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 669 | 25.4 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 586 | 23.9 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 547 | 26.3 mi | |
| 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 500 | 29.4 mi | |
| 2000 | Debris and open burning | 500 | 34.1 mi | |
| 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 454 | 23.0 mi | |
| 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 450 | 24.9 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six North Carolina cities with population within ±25% of Candor. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Candor.
A 30-minute weekend can cut your home's exposure substantially. These four checklists are a good starting point.
Numbers reflect incidents reported by participating fire departments to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Public Data Release for calendar year 2025. NFIRS is voluntary — about 23,000 of roughly 30,000 US fire departments report — so totals are a strong indicator, not a complete census. Per-capita comparisons use 2023 ACS population estimates. Wildland fire data complements NFIRS with NIFC and USFS perimeters. Active-fire counts come from a dated NIFC snapshot, not a live feed.