In 2025, fire departments serving Viola responded to 19 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Cooking fire, confined to container lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 79% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
154 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | — | |
| 2022 | 58 | +205.3% | |
| 2023 | 47 | -19.0% | |
| 2024* | 11 | — | |
| 2025 | 19 | — |
* Well below Viola'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 Viola departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Viola sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 17,745 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Smoking | 2,855 | 48.0 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2,759 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,028 | 40.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 998 | 48.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 866 | 48.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 16.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 3.1 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 7.4 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 550 | 46.6 mi | |
| 1994 | Smoking | 500 | 35.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 485 | 8.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 481 | 10.8 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 New York cities with population within ±25% of Viola. 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.