In 2025, fire departments serving Sullivan Gardens 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 83% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
38 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | 10 | +66.7% | |
| 2023 | 7 | -30.0% | |
| 2024* | 3 | — | |
| 2025 | 12 | — |
* Well below Sullivan Gardens'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 2 building fires Sullivan Gardens departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 16 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 | Outside area, other | 6 | 37.5% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 4 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Function area, other | 1 | 6.2% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 6.2% | |
| 5 | Storage room, area, tank, or bin | 1 | 6.2% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 6.2% | |
| 7 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 6.2% | |
| 8 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 6.2% |
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 Sullivan Gardens mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 11 | 68.8% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 4 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 6.2% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Sullivan Gardens sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 61,548 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 7,400 | 43.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,964 | 43.0 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,539 | 47.3 mi | |
| 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,300 | 38.2 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,040 | 47.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,943 | 42.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,765 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2,738 | 35.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,402 | 47.1 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,200 | 38.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,185 | 31.5 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 2,115 | 38.6 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 | 37663 | 38 |
Six Tennessee cities with population within ±25% of Sullivan Gardens. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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.