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Power generation / utility
fires

32,652 wildfire and 0 structure-fire incidents attributed to power generation / utility across the US in 1992–2020. They scorched 3,510,114 acres.

29 years tracked $0 property loss 50 states · 50 counties
Total incidents
32,652
1992–2020
Property loss
$0
NFIRS structure fires only
Civilian casualties
0 / 0
deaths / injuries
Avg per year
1,126
incidents / yr
01 Long-term trend

How power generation / utility fires have changed

Year-by-year incidents from 1992–2020.

199220062020
02 Top states

Where power generation / utility fires concentrate

50 states ranked by cumulative power generation / utility incidents.

TX
7,173 · 754,689 ac CA
3,677 · 986,481 ac FL
1,974 · 26,408 ac NC
1,613 · 4,962 ac WI
1,358 · 3,028 ac WV
1,288 · 14,678 ac NY
1,252 · 1,249 ac OR
1,148 · 41,302 ac VA
981 · 17,961 ac MT
796 · 56,051 ac WA
791 · 284,180 ac NJ
674 · 474 ac OK
632 · 160,997 ac NM
625 · 344,914 ac MI
623 · 3,911 ac SC
573 · 2,697 ac ID
549 · 197,268 ac SD
549 · 153,256 ac MN
492 · 1,518 ac AK
465 · 14,902 ac UT
463 · 105,028 ac NE
454 · 21,016 ac TN
432 · 7,124 ac WY
427 · 105,079 ac AZ
396 · 11,331 ac
03 Top counties

Power generation / utility hotspots by county

Top 50 counties by cumulative power generation / utility incidents.

#CountyStateIncidentsAcres
1 Kern County CA 248 2,663 ac
2 Riverside County CA 210 31,856 ac
3 Howard County TX 201 4,853 ac
4 Jackson County OR 193 4,388 ac
5 Rusk County TX 193 3,493 ac
6 Wichita County TX 179 21,853 ac
7 Lea County NM 147 53,639 ac
8 Taylor County TX 145 1,075 ac
9 Young County TX 144 1,964 ac
10 Nassau County NY 141 59 ac
11 Fresno County CA 138 3,371 ac
12 El Dorado County CA 133 8,212 ac
13 St. Louis County MN 132 347 ac
14 Upshur County TX 129 524 ac
15 Spokane County WA 129 465 ac
16 Josephine County OR 125 293 ac
17 Gaines County TX 125 24,665 ac
18 Stevens County WA 123 592 ac
19 Archer County TX 120 39,385 ac
20 Scurry County TX 119 3,368 ac
21 Highlands County FL 116 228 ac
22 Hutchinson County TX 116 4,929 ac
23 Douglas County OR 115 8,676 ac
24 Carson County TX 115 20,103 ac
25 Sonoma County CA 111 80,604 ac
26 Los Angeles County CA 110 116,682 ac
27 Clay County TX 110 24,604 ac
28 Stephens County TX 108 822 ac
29 Gregg County TX 107 5,343 ac
30 Monterey County CA 100 811 ac
31 Cass County TX 100 459 ac
32 Lane County OR 99 28 ac
33 Cherokee County TX 98 269 ac
34 Callahan County TX 95 668 ac
35 Harrison County TX 90 708 ac
36 Suwannee County FL 89 211 ac
37 Albemarle County VA 89 662 ac
38 Butte County CA 87 155,018 ac
39 Okeechobee County FL 85 262 ac
40 Marinette County WI 85 54 ac
41 San Luis Obispo County CA 84 1,966 ac
42 Oneida County WI 84 46 ac
43 Vilas County WI 82 164 ac
44 San Diego County CA 81 207,660 ac
45 Kanawha County WV 81 1,318 ac
46 Ocean County NJ 80 34 ac
47 Mendocino County CA 78 268 ac
48 Shasta County CA 78 58,268 ac
49 Suffolk County NY 78 30 ac
50 Hamilton County FL 77 134 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.