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18,599 wildfire and 0 structure-fire incidents attributed to fireworks across the US in 1992–2020. They scorched 547,383 acres.

29 years tracked $0 property loss 50 states · 50 counties
Total incidents
18,599
1992–2020
Property loss
$0
NFIRS structure fires only
Civilian casualties
0 / 0
deaths / injuries
Avg per year
641
incidents / yr
01 Long-term trend

How fireworks fires have changed

Fireworks fires spike around July 4 and New Year.

199220062020
02 Top states

Where fireworks fires concentrate

50 states ranked by cumulative fireworks incidents.

SD
3,000 · 49,068 ac MT
2,166 · 18,945 ac WA
1,844 · 33,915 ac OR
1,196 · 54,030 ac WV
1,031 · 109,347 ac ND
933 · 1,810 ac WY
770 · 4,802 ac WI
673 · 783 ac CA
645 · 47,744 ac CO
580 · 1,551 ac ID
572 · 40,080 ac UT
463 · 25,609 ac NC
436 · 1,534 ac AZ
411 · 53,042 ac FL
366 · 2,017 ac NV
316 · 12,453 ac TX
312 · 7,671 ac NM
301 · 14,896 ac NJ
294 · 302 ac NE
285 · 1,923 ac KS
259 · 801 ac OK
233 · 11,812 ac AK
194 · 37,723 ac MN
191 · 416 ac MI
152 · 453 ac
03 Top counties

Fireworks hotspots by county

Top 50 counties by cumulative fireworks incidents.

#CountyStateIncidentsAcres
1 Boone County WV 146 33,498 ac
2 Washakie County WY 145 127 ac
3 Kanawha County WV 134 16,758 ac
4 Spokane County WA 125 245 ac
5 Mingo County WV 112 19,842 ac
6 Josephine County OR 110 15 ac
7 Stevens County WA 104 502 ac
8 Logan County WV 90 9,786 ac
9 Oglala Lakota County SD 88 109 ac
10 Sweetwater County WY 87 1,578 ac
11 Jackson County OR 86 153 ac
12 Fremont County WY 86 93 ac
13 Ocean County NJ 69 83 ac
14 Thurston County WA 69 51 ac
15 Burnett County WI 69 56 ac
16 Clark County NV 66 557 ac
17 Lane County OR 64 44 ac
18 Mason County WA 63 1,163 ac
19 McDowell County WV 60 5,307 ac
20 Arapahoe County CO 56 18 ac
21 Missoula County MT 54 11 ac
22 Washoe County NV 54 479 ac
23 Klickitat County WA 54 510 ac
24 Raleigh County WV 54 10,641 ac
25 Los Angeles County CA 53 82 ac
26 Laramie County WY 52 738 ac
27 Washington County UT 49 12,348 ac
28 Atlantic County NJ 48 25 ac
29 Todd County SD 47 5 ac
30 Deschutes County OR 46 22 ac
31 Lee County FL 42 97 ac
32 Dare County NC 42 297 ac
33 Snohomish County WA 41 106 ac
34 Oconto County WI 41 22 ac
35 Mesa County CO 40 116 ac
36 Kittitas County WA 40 124 ac
37 Fayette County WV 40 9,878 ac
38 Marinette County WI 39 28 ac
39 Campbell County WY 39 62 ac
40 Adams County CO 38 162 ac
41 El Paso County CO 38 146 ac
42 Sedgwick County KS 37 11 ac
43 Park County WY 37 31 ac
44 Skagit County WA 35 24 ac
45 Iron County UT 34 34 ac
46 Pacific County WA 34 159 ac
47 Jefferson County CO 33 32 ac
48 Grays Harbor County WA 33 41 ac
49 Flathead County MT 32 20 ac
50 Douglas County OR 32 114 ac

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.