In 2025, fire departments serving New Brockton responded to 12 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 100% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
51 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | 9 | -10.0% | |
| 2024 | 17 | +88.9% | |
| 2025 | 12 | -29.4% |
* Well below New Brockton'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 New Brockton departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 1 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 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 100.0% |
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 New Brockton mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 100.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. New Brockton sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 7,439 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 678 | 40.1 mi | |
| 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 589 | 33.7 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 566 | 24.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 471 | 42.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 412 | 48.0 mi | |
| 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 350 | 46.4 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 320 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 312 | 23.1 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 299 | 44.1 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 295 | 39.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 270 | 27.0 mi | |
| 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 | 37.1 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 Alabama cities with population within ±25% of New Brockton. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in New Brockton.
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.