In 2025, fire departments serving State Line responded to 45 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $36K building blaze. 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 82% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Nov dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
154 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $886K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 14 | — | |
| 2022* | 1 | — | |
| 2023 | 22 | — | |
| 2024 | 72 | +227.3% | |
| 2025 | 45 | -37.5% |
* Well below State Line'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 3 building fires State Line departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 39 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 | 26 | 66.7% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 3 | 7.7% | |
| 3 | Storage: supplies or tools; dead storage | 3 | 7.7% | |
| 4 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 5.1% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 5.1% | |
| 6 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 7 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 8 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 2.6% |
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 State Line mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 29 | 74.4% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 5.1% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 7 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 8 | Match | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 9 | Cigarette lighter | 1 | 2.6% | |
| 10 | Lightning | 1 | 2.6% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by State Line departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $36,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $17,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $14,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $10,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. State Line sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 56,309 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,717 | 41.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,300 | 43.0 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,964 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Firearms and explosives use | 3,684 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,180 | 43.0 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,857 | 41.8 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,640 | 44.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,442 | 43.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,354 | 44.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,332 | 41.8 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,174 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2020 | Firearms and explosives use | 2,063 | 42.3 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 | 39362 | 154 |
Six Mississippi cities with population within ±25% of State Line. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in State Line.
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.