In 2025, fire departments serving Mine Hill responded to 24 fire and hazmat incidents . 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 67% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
70 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | 13 | -13.3% | |
| 2023 | 12 | -7.7% | |
| 2024* | 6 | — | |
| 2025 | 24 | — |
* Well below Mine 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 3 building fires Mine Hill departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 19 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 | 7 | 36.8% | |
| 2 | Function area, other | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 4 | Technical processing areas, other | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 5 | Processing/manufacturing area, workroom | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 6 | Shipping/receiving area; loading area, dock or bay | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 8 | Conduit, pipe, utility, or ventilation shaft | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 9 | Wall surface: exterior | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 10 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 3 | 15.8% |
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 Mine Hill mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arcing | 5 | 26.3% | |
| 2 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 4 | 21.1% | |
| 3 | Hot ember or ash | 3 | 15.8% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 7 | Molten, hot material | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 8 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 9 | Chemical reaction | 1 | 5.3% | |
| 10 | Undetermined | 1 | 5.3% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Mine Hill sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 22,168 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 7,949 | 38.2 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,265 | 44.5 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 995 | 41.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 812 | 42.2 mi | |
| 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 750 | 27.2 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 647 | 38.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 33.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 623 | 28.3 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 615 | 41.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 34.0 mi | |
| 1994 | Smoking | 500 | 23.2 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 New Jersey cities with population within ±25% of Mine Hill. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Mine 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.