In 2025, fire departments serving Durant responded to 33 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 64% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
71 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022* | 0 | — | |
| 2023* | 0 | — | |
| 2024 | 38 | — | |
| 2025 | 33 | -13.2% |
* Well below Durant'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 7 building fires Durant departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 25 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 | 18 | 72.0% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 8.0% | |
| 3 | Other | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 4 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 5 | Chute; laundry or mail, excluding trash chutes | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 6 | Roof surface: exterior | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 4.0% |
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 Durant mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 23 | 92.0% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 4.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Durant sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 14,849 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,208 | 5.8 mi | |
| 2013 | Natural | 700 | 29.6 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 626 | 42.9 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 600 | 26.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 510 | 22.0 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 493 | 47.3 mi | |
| 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 475 | 28.6 mi | |
| 1998 | Debris and open burning | 473 | 18.2 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 472 | 27.8 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 416 | 15.3 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 400 | 29.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 387 | 25.0 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 | 39063 | 71 |
Six Mississippi cities with population within ±25% of Durant. 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.