In 2025, fire departments serving Luxora responded to 13 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $10K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Garbage dump or sanitary landfill fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 100% of all calls.
Sep peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
88 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $57K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 25 | — | |
| 2022 | 29 | +16.0% | |
| 2023 | 17 | -41.4% | |
| 2024* | 4 | — | |
| 2025 | 13 | — |
* Well below Luxora'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 3 building fires Luxora departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 49 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 | 38 | 77.6% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 5 | 10.2% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 4 | Other | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 5 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 6 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 7 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 2.0% |
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 Luxora mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 48 | 98.0% | |
| 2 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 2.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Luxora departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $10,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Luxora sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 3,672 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 450 | 38.8 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 400 | 39.9 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 316 | 23.1 mi | |
| 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | 203 | 47.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 200 | 47.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 175 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2000 | Debris and open burning | 168 | 43.0 mi | |
| 2019 | Debris and open burning | 148 | 19.2 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 139 | 13.5 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 135 | 35.4 mi | |
| 1997 | Debris and open burning | 122 | 24.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 112 | 46.8 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 Arkansas cities with population within ±25% of Luxora. 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.