In 2025, fire departments serving Highland County responded to 431 fire and hazmat incidents — including a single $500K property loss. FEMA NRI rates wildfire risk here as High.
Building fires lead by count. Top five categories make up about 56% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Dec dips.
2,442 incidents from 2021 through 2025.
| Year | Incidents | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 456 | |
| 2022 | 518 | |
| 2023 | 519 | |
| 2024 | 518 | |
| 2025 | 431 |
For the 128 building fires departments responded to in 2025, here's how investigators classified them.
Largest single-incident property losses in Highland County during 2025. These 10 fires alone account for 71% of the county's total.
| # | Property loss | City | Type | Severity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $500,000 | Hillsboro | Outside equipment fire | Major |
| 2 | $466,000 | Hillsboro | Building fires | Major |
| 3 | $373,300 | Bainbridge | Building fires | Major |
| 4 | $300,000 | Hillsboro | Building fires | Major |
| 5 | $200,000 | Hillsboro | Building fires | Significant |
| 6 | $180,000 | Hillsboro | Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence | Significant |
| 7 | $110,700 | Hillsboro | Building fires | Significant |
| 8 | $80,000 | Greenfield | Building fires | Significant |
| 9 | $80,000 | Greenfield | Building fires | Significant |
| 10 | $80,000 | Greenfield | Building fires | Significant |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples.
12 cities mapped to FIPS 39071.
| City | Population | |
|---|---|---|
| Hillsboro | 6,492 | View › |
| Greenfield | 4,237 | View › |
| Lynchburg | 1,443 | View › |
| Leesburg | 1,270 | View › |
| Highland Holiday | 947 | View › |
| Rocky Fork Point | 701 | View › |
| Mowrystown | 461 | View › |
| Buford | 439 | View › |
| Sinking Spring | 271 | View › |
| Highland | 131 | View › |
| Needfull | 0 | View › |
| East Danville | 0 | View › |
Top 10 fire perimeters by acres burned (state-scoped fallback while we build out per-county polygons).
| # | Name | Year | Agency | Acres |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OHOTR-FY19-RX-Blausey Spring 2019 WUI | 2019 | FWS | 125 |
| 2 | Little Storm Creek | 2020 | USFS | 122 |
| 3 | GREEN | 2015 | USFS | 109 |
| 4 | THIRTEEN | 2018 | USFS | 105 |
| 5 | Terra Vista Prescribe Fire | 2021 | NPS | 79 |
| 6 | Lawco | 2023 | USFS | 61 |
| 7 | 128 | 2021 | USFS | 51 |
| 8 | FY23 NERI RX Burns | 2022 | NPS | 40 |
| 9 | Rock Hollow | 2023 | USFS | 29 |
| 10 | HOADLEY | 2018 | USFS | 24 |
County-level NFIRS aggregates for 2025, plus 5-year totals across 2021–2025. NFIRS is voluntary — about 23,000 of roughly 30,000 US fire departments report — so totals are a strong indicator, not a complete census. Wildfire risk score (0–100) and Expected Annual Loss come from FEMA's National Risk Index. Drought class is the most recent USDM classification (D0 = abnormally dry through D4 = exceptional drought). Historical fire perimeters are sourced from the NIFC InterAgency Fire Perimeter History.