In 2025, fire departments serving New Market responded to 42 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $150K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 81% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
242 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.4M cumulative property loss. 2 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 67 | — | |
| 2022 | 68 | +1.5% | |
| 2023 | 47 | -30.9% | |
| 2024* | 18 | — | |
| 2025 | 42 | — |
* Well below New Market'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 21 building fires New Market departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 94 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 | 58 | 61.7% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 5 | 5.3% | |
| 3 | Other | 4 | 4.3% | |
| 4 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 4 | 4.3% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 4 | 4.3% | |
| 6 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 3 | 3.2% | |
| 7 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 3 | 3.2% | |
| 8 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 2.1% | |
| 9 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 2.1% | |
| 10 | Storage area, other | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 8 | 8.5% |
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 Market mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 83 | 88.3% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 5 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 6 | Heat, spark from friction | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 7 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 8 | Cigarette | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 9 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 10 | Other static discharge | 1 | 1.1% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 2 | 2.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by New Market departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $7,000 | Outside equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. New Market sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
7 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 0 | |
| 30-39 | 2 | |
| 40-49 | 2 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 2 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 100,734 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 17,140 | 33.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,586 | 43.9 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 8,134 | 42.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 7,580 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,964 | 44.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,700 | 44.5 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,040 | 35.2 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,860 | 42.0 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,675 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,200 | 44.8 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,944 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,943 | 41.2 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 New Market. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in New Market.
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.