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Recreation & ceremony
fires

99,473 wildfire and 0 structure-fire incidents attributed to recreation & ceremony across the US in 1992–2020. They scorched 4,654,571 acres.

29 years tracked $0 property loss 50 states · 50 counties
Total incidents
99,473
1992–2020
Property loss
$0
NFIRS structure fires only
Civilian casualties
0 / 0
deaths / injuries
Avg per year
3,430
incidents / yr
01 Long-term trend

How recreation & ceremony fires have changed

Year-by-year incidents from 1992–2020.

199220062020
02 Top states

Where recreation & ceremony fires concentrate

50 states ranked by cumulative recreation & ceremony incidents.

CA
11,453 · 1,170,235 ac OR
9,756 · 87,624 ac WA
7,554 · 139,972 ac AZ
7,410 · 1,084,597 ac MT
5,321 · 120,200 ac CO
4,435 · 344,462 ac GA
4,326 · 20,015 ac AL
4,029 · 33,823 ac KY
3,452 · 64,626 ac ID
2,836 · 260,288 ac NM
2,653 · 374,341 ac NY
2,648 · 7,723 ac FL
2,498 · 78,587 ac UT
2,197 · 147,536 ac MN
2,171 · 99,737 ac TX
2,161 · 64,844 ac WI
1,923 · 4,474 ac AK
1,880 · 132,502 ac NJ
1,875 · 5,125 ac MS
1,661 · 17,076 ac WY
1,631 · 128,977 ac MI
1,534 · 13,456 ac LA
1,377 · 16,411 ac ME
1,192 · 867 ac MA
1,074 · 847 ac
03 Top counties

Recreation & ceremony hotspots by county

Top 50 counties by cumulative recreation & ceremony incidents.

#CountyStateIncidentsAcres
1 Coconino County AZ 1,916 36,713 ac
2 Deschutes County OR 1,121 3,127 ac
3 Spokane County WA 635 1,988 ac
4 Clackamas County OR 606 141 ac
5 Lane County OR 577 712 ac
6 Kittitas County WA 514 6,112 ac
7 Missoula County MT 479 90 ac
8 Norfolk County MA 478 279 ac
9 Klamath County OR 463 629 ac
10 Riverside County CA 450 6,264 ac
11 Douglas County OR 438 13,457 ac
12 San Diego County CA 424 25,878 ac
13 El Dorado County CA 420 3,614 ac
14 Yakima County WA 407 7,919 ac
15 Flathead County MT 365 4,044 ac
16 Jackson County OR 365 378 ac
17 Grant County OR 350 1,622 ac
18 Chelan County WA 334 45,813 ac
19 Cochise County AZ 333 49,467 ac
20 Ocean County NJ 313 1,684 ac
21 Snohomish County WA 294 112 ac
22 Okanogan County WA 293 11,677 ac
23 St. Louis County MN 290 672 ac
24 Placer County CA 289 1,190 ac
25 Lincoln County MT 279 431 ac
26 Stevens County WA 277 1,321 ac
27 Eagle County CO 271 410 ac
28 Skamania County WA 263 147 ac
29 Klickitat County WA 255 970 ac
30 Los Angeles County CA 253 2,401 ac
31 Navajo County AZ 250 325 ac
32 San Bernardino County CA 245 1,220 ac
33 Josephine County OR 244 322 ac
34 Thurston County WA 244 460 ac
35 Lewis and Clark County MT 237 399 ac
36 Siskiyou County CA 230 3,220 ac
37 King County WA 229 250 ac
38 Talladega County AL 227 2,216 ac
39 Pierce County WA 227 71 ac
40 Yavapai County AZ 225 10,167 ac
41 Pima County AZ 220 2,177 ac
42 Santa Cruz County AZ 212 65,881 ac
43 Nevada County CA 209 213 ac
44 Maricopa County AZ 207 83,398 ac
45 Wasco County OR 207 2,894 ac
46 Pike County KY 206 10,729 ac
47 Cowlitz County WA 205 198 ac
48 Otero County NM 204 154 ac
49 Sandoval County NM 203 7,540 ac
50 Apache County AZ 199 329 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.