In 2025, fire departments serving Marble Hill responded to 22 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $5K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 82% of all calls.
Mar peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
53 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $571K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 17 | — | |
| 2023 | 7 | -58.8% | |
| 2024* | 4 | — | |
| 2025 | 22 | — |
* Well below Marble Hill'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 5 building fires Marble Hill departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 30 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 | 12 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Other | 6 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Outside area, other | 4 | 13.3% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 4 | 13.3% | |
| 5 | Function area, other | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 6 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 7 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 3.3% |
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 Marble Hill mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 17 | 56.7% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 4 | 13.3% | |
| 3 | Cigarette lighter | 3 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 6.7% | |
| 5 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 3.3% | |
| 7 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 1 | 3.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Marble Hill departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $5,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Marble Hill sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 11,550 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,422 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,595 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 569 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 495 | 28.8 mi | |
| 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 429 | 31.1 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 409 | 36.7 mi | |
| 1997 | Debris and open burning | 400 | 48.6 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 | 50.0 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 302 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 285 | 43.7 mi | |
| 1997 | Debris and open burning | 280 | 42.1 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 276 | 27.2 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 | 63764 | 53 |
Six Missouri cities with population within ±25% of Marble Hill. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Marble Hill.
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.