In 2025, fire departments serving Nahunta responded to 60 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 70% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Nov dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
135 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $395K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | 24 | — | |
| 2023* | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | 36 | — | |
| 2025 | 60 | +66.7% |
* Well below Nahunta'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 8 building fires Nahunta departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 34 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 | 11 | 32.4% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 5 | 14.7% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 8.8% | |
| 4 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 5.9% | |
| 6 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 7 | Bedroom - 5+ persons; including barrack/dormitory | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 8 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 9 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 10 | Technical processing areas, other | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 6 | 17.6% |
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 Nahunta mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 16 | 47.1% | |
| 2 | Hot ember or ash | 5 | 14.7% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 3 | 8.8% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 3 | 8.8% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 6 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 7 | Heat, spark from friction | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 8 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 9 | Chemical reaction | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 10 | Lightning | 1 | 2.9% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 1 | 2.9% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Nahunta sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 995,086 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Natural | 309,200 | 40.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 191,474 | 32.8 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 152,515 | 48.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Natural | 124,110 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 68,361 | 28.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 28,985 | 47.4 mi | |
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 22,246 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 19,198 | 32.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 14,128 | 35.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Debris and open burning | 7,800 | 37.5 mi | |
| 2001 | Natural | 6,960 | 32.3 mi | |
| 2002 | Debris and open burning | 5,816 | 40.8 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 | 31553 | 135 |
Six Georgia cities with population within ±25% of Nahunta. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Nahunta.
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.