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Equipment & vehicle use
fires

190,319 wildfire and 291,362 structure-fire incidents attributed to equipment & vehicle use across the US in 1992–2025. They scorched 9,935,760 acres. Linked to 345 civilian deaths.

34 years tracked $5.1B property loss 50 states · 50 counties
Total incidents
481,681
1992–2025
Property loss
$5.1B
NFIRS structure fires only
Civilian casualties
345 / 1,960
deaths / injuries
Avg per year
14,167
incidents / yr
01 Long-term trend

How equipment & vehicle use fires have changed

Year-by-year incidents from 1992–2025.

199220092025
02 Top states

Where equipment & vehicle use fires concentrate

50 states ranked by cumulative equipment & vehicle use incidents.

CA
72,311 · 2,597,952 ac TX
47,666 · 1,193,153 ac FL
35,021 · 599,431 ac PA
24,274 · 4,807 ac GA
21,684 · 34,737 ac NC
20,269 · 57,225 ac MI
12,970 · 12,490 ac OH
12,884 · 951 ac SC
12,542 · 21,545 ac TN
12,212 · 13,050 ac NY
11,419 · 7,452 ac WI
11,244 · 19,781 ac IL
9,972 · 2,238 ac VA
9,183 · 26,395 ac WA
8,976 · 841,988 ac OR
8,748 · 584,580 ac AL
8,437 · 35,103 ac AZ
7,759 · 326,806 ac MN
7,593 · 30,767 ac OK
7,593 · 174,826 ac NJ
7,510 · 14,802 ac CO
6,984 · 108,271 ac MA
6,557 · 452 ac AR
6,451 · 25,092 ac LA
5,724 · 11,774 ac
03 Top counties

Equipment & vehicle use hotspots by county

Top 50 counties by cumulative equipment & vehicle use incidents.

#CountyStateIncidentsAcres
1 Philadelphia County PA 8,067 —
2 Los Angeles County CA 7,252 40,092 ac
3 Harris County TX 5,833 437 ac
4 Riverside County CA 5,280 84,797 ac
5 Queens County NY 5,030 96 ac
6 Miami-Dade County FL 3,676 18,350 ac
7 San Bernardino County CA 2,644 13,340 ac
8 Cook County IL 2,528 —
9 San Diego County CA 2,442 74,972 ac
10 Fresno County CA 2,353 87,530 ac
11 Shelby County TN 2,161 —
12 Kern County CA 2,094 17,624 ac
13 Bexar County TX 2,045 1,401 ac
14 Maricopa County AZ 2,034 207,563 ac
15 Clark County NV 1,875 2,375 ac
16 Dallas County TX 1,762 29 ac
17 Orange County FL 1,558 2,425 ac
18 Tulare County CA 1,530 13,483 ac
19 Butte County CA 1,439 11,061 ac
20 Cuyahoga County OH 1,358 —
21 King County WA 1,338 50 ac
22 Polk County FL 1,333 23,313 ac
23 Duval County FL 1,321 4,938 ac
24 Travis County TX 1,308 909 ac
25 Hillsborough County FL 1,293 2,966 ac
26 Broward County FL 1,271 194,209 ac
27 Merced County CA 1,258 45,639 ac
28 Santa Clara County CA 1,258 9,288 ac
29 Ada County ID 1,252 23,879 ac
30 Placer County CA 1,249 2,575 ac
31 Orange County CA 1,221 149 ac
32 Oakland County MI 1,221 89 ac
33 San Luis Obispo County CA 1,205 15,914 ac
34 Wayne County MI 1,173 181 ac
35 Shasta County CA 1,165 238,360 ac
36 El Dorado County CA 1,117 3,755 ac
37 Lee County FL 1,110 3,793 ac
38 Madera County CA 1,089 20,490 ac
39 Sacramento County CA 1,052 1,078 ac
40 Jackson County OR 1,052 3,352 ac
41 Santa Rosa County FL 1,041 13,485 ac
42 Tarrant County TX 1,037 667 ac
43 Kent County MI 1,018 300 ac
44 Alameda County CA 978 6,268 ac
45 Sonoma County CA 978 9,593 ac
46 Tehama County CA 972 19,392 ac
47 Sarasota County FL 961 6,737 ac
48 Hamilton County OH 928 —
49 San Joaquin County CA 918 29,152 ac
50 Marion County FL 918 11,436 ac
04 Top cities

Equipment & vehicle use hotspots by city

Top 50 cities (NFIRS structure-fire matches only).

#CityStateIncidentsLoss
1 Philadelphia PA 8,069 $11.8M
2 New York NY 5,247 —
3 Houston TX 4,250 $63.4M
4 Memphis TN 1,964 $32.2M
5 San Antonio TX 1,486 $11.4M
6 Los Angeles CA 1,368 $9.1M
7 Austin TX 1,112 $14.6M
8 Las Vegas NV 1,069 $9.9M
9 Chicago IL 961 $1.4M
10 Jacksonville FL 922 $15K
11 Orlando FL 871 $6.5M
12 Tampa FL 834 $9.8M
13 Indianapolis IN 647 $9.4M
14 Louisville KY 643 $7.4M
15 Columbia SC 573 $5.8M
16 Cleveland OH 565 $6.1M
17 Boston MA 552 $22.1M
18 Baton Rouge LA 507 $10.2M
19 Cincinnati OH 501 $2.9M
20 Spring TX 498 $9.6M
21 Columbus OH 497 $4.6M
22 Tulsa OK 496 $6.1M
23 Nashville TN 484 $5.4M
24 New Orleans LA 481 $10.0M
25 Tucson AZ 481 $2.1M
26 San Diego CA 479 $6.2M
27 Baltimore MD 478 $4.4M
28 Tacoma WA 442 $5.3M
29 Fresno CA 435 $5.7M
30 Seattle WA 435 $5.9M
31 Washington DC 432 $7.2M
32 Oklahoma City OK 429 $4.7M
33 Portland OR 420 $6.0M
34 Riverside CA 420 $7.0M
35 Corpus Christi TX 417 $4.7M
36 Fayetteville NC 411 $4.4M
37 Denver CO 403 $4.7M
38 Richmond VA 400 $3.2M
39 Stockton CA 399 $3.4M
40 Sacramento CA 398 $3.1M
41 Toledo OH 396 $3.0M
42 Mesa AZ 395 $6.1M
43 San Francisco CA 372 $31.5M
44 Lakeland FL 359 $3.1M
45 Charlotte NC 351 $3.4M
46 Little Rock AR 347 $3.9M
47 Dayton OH 343 $1.9M
48 Colorado Springs CO 330 $4.2M
49 Bakersfield CA 329 $5.5M
50 Miami FL 325 $5.5M

About this data

FireVerge's cause profiles use the 13 ignition categories defined by the FPA FOD (Fire Program Analysis Fire-Occurrence Database, 6th edition: 2.3M wildfire records, 1992–2020). NFIRS CAUSE_IGN codes from 11.4M structure incidents (2021–2025) are cross-classified into the same taxonomy where they align cleanly. Wildfires (FOD) and structure fires (NFIRS) are tracked as separate sources because their data captures very different things — FOD records every wildfire ignition in the US, while NFIRS counts emergency-department responses.