In 2025, fire departments serving Greenville responded to 21 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Carbon monoxide incident lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 62% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
122 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $4K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 43 | — | |
| 2023 | 27 | -37.2% | |
| 2024 | 31 | +14.8% | |
| 2025 | 21 | -32.3% |
* Well below Greenville'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 2 building fires Greenville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 11 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 | 4 | 36.4% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 4 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 5 | Office | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 6 | Equipment or service area, other | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 7 | Heating room or area, water heater area | 1 | 9.1% |
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 Greenville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 7 | 63.6% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 3 | 27.3% | |
| 3 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 1 | 9.1% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Greenville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,715 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Smoking | 856 | 40.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | 198 | 23.0 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 67 | 17.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 61 | 22.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Other causes | 45 | 38.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 41 | 35.3 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 34.3 mi | |
| 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 | 25.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 38 | 39.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 34 | 40.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 32 | 30.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 28 | 29.9 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Maine cities with population within ±25% of Greenville. 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.