In 2025, fire departments serving Mount Juliet responded to 135 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $200K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 56% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
661 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $2.0M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 129 | — | |
| 2022 | 210 | +62.8% | |
| 2023 | 115 | -45.2% | |
| 2024* | 72 | — | |
| 2025 | 135 | — |
* Well below Mount Juliet'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 7 building fires Mount Juliet departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 287 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 | 57 | 19.9% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 49 | 17.1% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 38 | 13.2% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 34 | 11.8% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 25 | 8.7% | |
| 6 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 16 | 5.6% | |
| 7 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 7 | 2.4% | |
| 8 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 5 | 1.7% | |
| 9 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 5 | 1.7% | |
| 10 | Wildland, woods | 5 | 1.7% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 46 | 16.0% |
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 Mount Juliet mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 154 | 53.7% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 27 | 9.4% | |
| 3 | Hot ember or ash | 18 | 6.3% | |
| 4 | Cigarette | 15 | 5.2% | |
| 5 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 10 | 3.5% | |
| 6 | Arcing | 9 | 3.1% | |
| 7 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 8 | 2.8% | |
| 8 | Cigarette lighter | 7 | 2.4% | |
| 9 | Fireworks | 5 | 1.7% | |
| 10 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 4 | 1.4% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 30 | 10.5% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Mount Juliet departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 96% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $75,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $25,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $15,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $7,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $5,000 | Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Mount Juliet sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 3,263 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 328 | 26.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 230 | 48.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 225 | 33.3 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 180 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 178 | 46.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 178 | 45.9 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 170 | 23.0 mi | |
| 1998 | Natural | 153 | 37.2 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 118 | 48.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | 118 | 44.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 116 | 34.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 112 | 43.7 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 Tennessee cities with population within ±25% of Mount Juliet. 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.