In 2025, fire departments serving Teachey responded to 30 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100 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 80% of all calls.
Dec peaks. Jul dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
79 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $1.4M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | — | |
| 2022 | 19 | +11.8% | |
| 2023* | 2 | — | |
| 2024 | 11 | — | |
| 2025 | 30 | +172.7% |
* Well below Teachey'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 Teachey departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 29 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 | 16 | 55.2% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 4 | 13.8% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 3 | 10.3% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 3 | 10.3% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 3.4% | |
| 6 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 3.4% | |
| 7 | Multiple areas | 1 | 3.4% |
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 Teachey mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 21 | 72.4% | |
| 2 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 2 | 6.9% | |
| 3 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 2 | 6.9% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 3.4% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 3.4% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 3.4% | |
| 7 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 1 | 3.4% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Teachey departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Teachey sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 59,880 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Natural | 31,140 | 24.6 mi | |
| 2011 | Natural | 5,438 | 40.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 2,727 | 28.5 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,084 | 15.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,533 | 23.9 mi | |
| 1994 | Natural | 1,300 | 7.5 mi | |
| 1993 | Natural | 1,216 | 22.5 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,164 | 44.3 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,154 | 31.1 mi | |
| 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1,126 | 22.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,100 | 33.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 944 | 32.6 mi |
Top 3 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six North Carolina cities with population within ±25% of Teachey. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Teachey.
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.