In 2025, fire departments serving Norphlet responded to 18 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $10 building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 78% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jun dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
25 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $30K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022* | 1 | — | |
| 2023* | 2 | — | |
| 2024 | 4 | — | |
| 2025 | 18 | +350.0% |
* Well below Norphlet'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 1 building fires Norphlet departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 20 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 8 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Wildland, woods | 5 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 2 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 2 | 10.0% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 7 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 5.0% |
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 Norphlet mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arcing | 7 | 35.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 5 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 4 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 2 | 10.0% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 5.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Norphlet departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $10 | Outside equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Norphlet sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 18,586 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,070 | 29.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,806 | 45.3 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,509 | 33.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,414 | 46.7 mi | |
| 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 929 | 27.2 mi | |
| 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 905 | 33.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 902 | 44.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 852 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 755 | 45.9 mi | |
| 2004 | Natural | 727 | 45.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 632 | 48.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 506 | 30.0 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 | 71759 | 25 |
Six Arkansas cities with population within ±25% of Norphlet. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Norphlet.
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.