In 2025, fire departments serving Eden responded to 157 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Eden's departments reported 157 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 299 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 55% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Oct dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,495 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $6.0M cumulative property loss. 3 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 333 | — | |
| 2022 | 341 | +2.4% | |
| 2023 | 347 | +1.8% | |
| 2024 | 317 | -8.6% | |
| 2025* | 157 | — |
* Well below Eden'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 Eden departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 450 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 | Outside area, other | 91 | 20.2% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 89 | 19.8% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 46 | 10.2% | |
| 4 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 46 | 10.2% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 18 | 4.0% | |
| 6 | Wildland, woods | 15 | 3.3% | |
| 7 | Wall surface: exterior | 14 | 3.1% | |
| 8 | Other | 12 | 2.7% | |
| 9 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 11 | 2.4% | |
| 10 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 8 | 1.8% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 100 | 22.2% |
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 Eden mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 230 | 51.1% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 45 | 10.0% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 30 | 6.7% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 27 | 6.0% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 20 | 4.4% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 14 | 3.1% | |
| 7 | Heat source: other | 9 | 2.0% | |
| 8 | Cigarette | 9 | 2.0% | |
| 9 | Radiated heat from another fire | 8 | 1.8% | |
| 10 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 7 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 51 | 11.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Eden departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $55,152 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $7,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $2,500 | Natural vegetation fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $500 | Mobile property (vehicle) fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Eden sits above 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 | 1 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 0 | |
| 30-39 | 1 | |
| 40-49 | 2 | |
| 50-59 | 4 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 11,229 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Natural | 3,696 | 29.8 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,146 | 49.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,036 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 850 | 43.2 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 675 | 42.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 400 | 36.8 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 380 | 36.0 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 363 | 35.1 mi | |
| 2005 | Natural | 350 | 22.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 289 | 43.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 230 | 26.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 175 | 33.4 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 North Carolina cities with population within ±25% of Eden. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Eden.
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.