In 2025, fire departments serving Yorkshire responded to 11 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 73% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jul dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
51 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | 19 | +35.7% | |
| 2024 | 7 | -63.2% | |
| 2025 | 11 | +57.1% |
* Well below Yorkshire'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 2 building fires Yorkshire departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Yorkshire sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 33,125 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 16,021 | 47.9 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 6,131 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 2,138 | 49.7 mi | |
| 2011 | Other causes | 1,989 | 40.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 1,200 | 48.0 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 640 | 17.2 mi | |
| 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 500 | 42.2 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 461 | 25.5 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 431 | 26.2 mi | |
| 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 405 | 31.5 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 | 31.2 mi | |
| 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 350 | 31.3 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 | 20111 | 51 |
Six Virginia cities with population within ±25% of Yorkshire. 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.