In 2025, fire departments serving Woodville responded to 24 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $191K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 96% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jun dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
114 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $1.1M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 9 | — | |
| 2022* | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | 44 | — | |
| 2024 | 32 | -27.3% | |
| 2025 | 24 | -25.0% |
* Well below Woodville'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 17 building fires Woodville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 73 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 | 61 | 83.6% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 4 | 5.5% | |
| 3 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 2.7% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 2.7% | |
| 5 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 6 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 7 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 8 | Outside area, other | 1 | 1.4% |
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 Woodville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 66 | 90.4% | |
| 2 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 3 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 4 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 5 | Candle | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 6 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 7 | Radiated heat from another fire | 1 | 1.4% | |
| 8 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 1.4% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Woodville departments in 2025. These 7 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $190,700 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $75,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $8,000 | Fire in motor home, camper, recreational vehicle | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $6,000 | Fire in motor home, camper, recreational vehicle | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Woodville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 16,395 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Debris and open burning | 4,110 | 10.4 mi | |
| 1996 | Debris and open burning | 4,109 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,295 | 42.5 mi | |
| 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 570 | 21.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 491 | 18.1 mi | |
| 1996 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 453 | 16.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 408 | 14.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 400 | 48.2 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 | 39.3 mi | |
| 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 365 | 22.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 360 | 14.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 344 | 37.6 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Mississippi cities with population within ±25% of Woodville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Woodville.
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.