In 2025, fire departments serving Woodstock responded to 22 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 64% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Sep dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
136 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | 42 | — | |
| 2023 | 35 | -16.7% | |
| 2024 | 32 | -8.6% | |
| 2025 | 22 | -31.2% |
* Well below Woodstock'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 3 building fires Woodstock departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 101 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 | 37 | 36.6% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 24 | 23.8% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 11 | 10.9% | |
| 4 | Wildland, woods | 6 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Other | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 6 | Cooking area, kitchen | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 8 | Equipment or service area, other | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 9 | Vehicle area, other | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 10 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 7 | 6.9% |
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 Woodstock mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 68 | 67.3% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 5 | 5.0% | |
| 3 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 5 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 8 | Heat, spark from friction | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 9 | Radiated heat from another fire | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 10 | Conducted heat from another fire | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 7 | 6.9% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Woodstock sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 26,427 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 2,950 | 14.2 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,784 | 18.1 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,590 | 32.8 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,925 | 22.0 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 1,800 | 35.6 mi | |
| 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 1,540 | 41.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,308 | 44.0 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,262 | 24.6 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 1,100 | 35.1 mi | |
| 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 721 | 25.3 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 700 | 26.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 660 | 28.9 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Alabama cities with population within ±25% of Woodstock. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Woodstock.
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.