In 2025, fire departments serving Virgil responded to 26 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100 building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Hazardous condition, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 96% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
39 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $100 cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 4 | — | |
| 2022* | 2 | — | |
| 2023* | 2 | — | |
| 2024 | 5 | — | |
| 2025 | 26 | +420.0% |
* Well below Virgil'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 0 building fires Virgil departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Virgil departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100 | Electrical wiring/equipment problem, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Virgil sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,603 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 | 694 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 100 | 40.0 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 85 | 34.5 mi | |
| 1997 | Debris and open burning | 60 | 40.6 mi | |
| 2015 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 53 | 29.5 mi | |
| 1994 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 29.7 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 49 | 0.0 mi | |
| 1997 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 22.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 24.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 37 | 35.6 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 31 | 8.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 46.1 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 | 13045 | 39 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Virgil. 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.