In 2025, fire departments serving Crump responded to 14 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $10K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Fire, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 57% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
53 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $137K cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | 12 | -7.7% | |
| 2023* | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | 8 | — | |
| 2025 | 14 | +75.0% |
* Well below Crump'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 Crump departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 30 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 6 | 20.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 6 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 5 | 16.7% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 6.7% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 2 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Outside area, other | 2 | 6.7% | |
| 7 | Other | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 9 | Storage room, area, tank, or bin | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 10 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 3 | 10.0% |
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 Crump mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 18 | 60.0% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 4 | 13.3% | |
| 3 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 2 | 6.7% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 7 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Lightning | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 9 | Conducted heat from another fire | 1 | 3.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Crump departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $10,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $5,800 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $5,000 | Fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Crump sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 10,025 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,344 | 32.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 900 | 17.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 702 | 25.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 585 | 39.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 516 | 41.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 500 | 34.7 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 390 | 15.6 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 382 | 37.2 mi | |
| 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 350 | 24.9 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 | 46.9 mi | |
| 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 330 | 48.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 320 | 35.5 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 | 38327 | 53 |
Six Tennessee cities with population within ±25% of Crump. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Crump.
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.