In 2025, fire departments serving Cobb Island responded to 14 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Fires in structures other than in a building lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 71% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
60 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | 14 | +16.7% | |
| 2023* | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | 14 | — | |
| 2025 | 14 | +0.0% |
* Well below Cobb Island'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 0 building fires Cobb Island departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Cobb Island sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 29,460 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Debris and open burning | 3,208 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,910 | 49.1 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,124 | 47.2 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,066 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,800 | 48.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,756 | 49.2 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,596 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,367 | 44.4 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,057 | 47.7 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,040 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,000 | 49.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Debris and open burning | 920 | 45.3 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 | 20625 | 60 |
Six Maryland cities with population within ±25% of Cobb Island. 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.