In 2025, fire departments serving Corbin responded to 112 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Aircraft standby lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 61% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Nov dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
846 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $179K cumulative property loss. 3 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 98 | — | |
| 2022 | 263 | — | |
| 2023 | 201 | -23.6% | |
| 2024 | 172 | -14.4% | |
| 2025 | 112 | -34.9% |
* Well below Corbin'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 14 building fires Corbin departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 518 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 | Undetermined | 354 | 68.3% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 21 | 4.1% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 19 | 3.7% | |
| 4 | Other | 13 | 2.5% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 13 | 2.5% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 13 | 2.5% | |
| 7 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 13 | 2.5% | |
| 8 | Wildland, woods | 11 | 2.1% | |
| 9 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 7 | 1.4% | |
| 10 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 5 | 1.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 49 | 9.5% |
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 Corbin mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 451 | 87.1% | |
| 2 | Cigarette lighter | 9 | 1.7% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 7 | 1.4% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 7 | 1.4% | |
| 5 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 7 | 1.4% | |
| 6 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 6 | 1.2% | |
| 7 | Arcing | 5 | 1.0% | |
| 8 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 5 | 1.0% | |
| 9 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 3 | 0.6% | |
| 10 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 3 | 0.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 15 | 2.9% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Corbin sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 81,051 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,586 | 34.7 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 8,134 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,700 | 20.7 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,040 | 29.9 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,860 | 37.4 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,675 | 21.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,539 | 45.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3,500 | 49.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,406 | 30.5 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,000 | 43.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2,850 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,537 | 27.2 mi |
Top 3 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Kentucky cities with population within ±25% of Corbin. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
4 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Corbin.
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.