In 2025, fire departments serving Carolina Shores responded to 11 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 91% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
13 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022* | 0 | — | |
| 2023* | 1 | — | |
| 2024* | 0 | — | |
| 2025 | 11 | — |
* Well below Carolina Shores'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 2 building fires Carolina Shores departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Carolina Shores sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 39,611 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 19,130 | 20.8 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,150 | 43.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,911 | 12.7 mi | |
| 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1,648 | 26.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1,577 | 22.8 mi | |
| 2011 | Fireworks | 1,155 | 21.9 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 1,089 | 40.4 mi | |
| 1993 | Debris and open burning | 970 | 25.0 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 844 | 27.7 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 830 | 48.9 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 765 | 32.2 mi | |
| 1998 | Debris and open burning | 750 | 13.9 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 28467 | 13 |
Six North Carolina cities with population within ±25% of Carolina Shores. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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.