In 2025, fire departments serving Center Line responded to 51 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Center Line's departments reported 51 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 103 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Radioactive condition, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 76% of all calls.
Dec peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
515 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $1.9M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 206 | — | |
| 2022 | 168 | -18.4% | |
| 2023 | 62 | -63.1% | |
| 2024* | 28 | — | |
| 2025* | 51 | — |
* Well below Center Line'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 Center Line departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 100 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 23 | 23.0% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 19 | 19.0% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 9 | 9.0% | |
| 4 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 7 | 7.0% | |
| 5 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 6 | 6.0% | |
| 6 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 6 | 6.0% | |
| 7 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 8 | Other | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 9 | Function area, other | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 10 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 18 | 18.0% |
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 Center Line mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 26 | 26.0% | |
| 2 | Cigarette | 19 | 19.0% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 17 | 17.0% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 10 | 10.0% | |
| 5 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 5 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 8 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 10 | Heat source: other | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 8 | 8.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Center Line sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
8 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 0 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 4 | |
| 60-69 | 2 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,170 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Debris and open burning | 300 | 34.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 | 47.2 mi | |
| 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 | 44.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 77 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 64 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2003 | Debris and open burning | 53 | 36.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 34.3 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 | 11.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 42 | 31.5 mi | |
| 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 38 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 33 | 40.7 mi | |
| 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 | 29.3 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 | 48015 | 515 |
Six Michigan cities with population within ±25% of Center Line. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Center Line.
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.