In 2025, fire departments serving Green Forest responded to 43 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $15K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Green Forest's departments reported 43 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 100 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Vehicle accident, general cleanup lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 70% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Jul dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
501 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $1.2M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 118 | — | |
| 2022 | 115 | -2.5% | |
| 2023 | 113 | -1.7% | |
| 2024 | 112 | -0.9% | |
| 2025* | 43 | — |
* Well below Green Forest'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 6 building fires Green Forest departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 124 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 | 53 | 42.7% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 12 | 9.7% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 11 | 8.9% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 7 | 5.6% | |
| 5 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 6 | 4.8% | |
| 6 | Wall surface: exterior | 5 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | Outside area, other | 4 | 3.2% | |
| 8 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 3 | 2.4% | |
| 9 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 10 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 19 | 15.3% |
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 Green Forest mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 86 | 69.4% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 9 | 7.3% | |
| 3 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 8 | 6.5% | |
| 4 | Heat, spark from friction | 5 | 4.0% | |
| 5 | Match | 5 | 4.0% | |
| 6 | Heat source: other | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 7 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 10 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 1 | 0.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Green Forest departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $15,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $4,500 | Chimney or flue fire, confined to chimney or flue | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $2,500 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $2,500 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Green Forest sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 34,440 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,983 | 49.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,471 | 42.6 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,121 | 45.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,101 | 36.9 mi | |
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2,008 | 39.0 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,653 | 50.0 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,625 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1,470 | 38.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 1,435 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,340 | 39.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,212 | 49.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,178 | 40.4 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Arkansas cities with population within ±25% of Green Forest. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Green Forest.
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.