In 2025, fire departments serving Taylorsville responded to 44 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 89% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jun dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
182 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $985K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 28 | — | |
| 2022* | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | 55 | — | |
| 2024 | 49 | -10.9% | |
| 2025 | 44 | -10.2% |
* Well below Taylorsville'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 6 building fires Taylorsville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 118 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 | 85 | 72.0% | |
| 2 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 8 | 6.8% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 6 | 5.1% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 4 | 3.4% | |
| 5 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 6 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 2 | 1.7% | |
| 7 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 8 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 9 | Storage room, area, tank, or bin | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 10 | Shipping/receiving area; loading area, dock or bay | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 6 | 5.1% |
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 Taylorsville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 97 | 82.2% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 5 | 4.2% | |
| 3 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 4 | 3.4% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 6 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 1.7% | |
| 7 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 2 | 1.7% | |
| 8 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 0.8% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 0.8% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Taylorsville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 22,683 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Debris and open burning | 4,212 | 36.6 mi | |
| 2020 | Firearms and explosives use | 3,684 | 49.1 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,858 | 46.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,259 | 49.9 mi | |
| 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1,001 | 18.9 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 801 | 37.8 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 800 | 32.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 682 | 21.4 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 642 | 49.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 600 | 46.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 584 | 49.3 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 575 | 47.8 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 | 39168 | 182 |
Six Mississippi cities with population within ±25% of Taylorsville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Taylorsville.
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.