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Smoking
fires

63,783 wildfire and 0 structure-fire incidents attributed to smoking across the US in 1992–2020. They scorched 943,174 acres.

29 years tracked $0 property loss 50 states · 50 counties
Total incidents
63,783
1992–2020
Property loss
$0
NFIRS structure fires only
Civilian casualties
0 / 0
deaths / injuries
Avg per year
2,199
incidents / yr
01 Long-term trend

How smoking fires have changed

Year-by-year incidents from 1992–2020.

199220062020
02 Top states

Where smoking fires concentrate

50 states ranked by cumulative smoking incidents.

CA
8,472 · 120,018 ac NC
6,622 · 14,918 ac NY
6,566 · 11,948 ac GA
5,134 · 14,288 ac TX
4,360 · 184,111 ac OR
2,610 · 42,483 ac NJ
2,566 · 3,145 ac AZ
2,284 · 45,853 ac CO
1,936 · 29,546 ac SC
1,660 · 7,874 ac AL
1,463 · 8,836 ac FL
1,442 · 36,970 ac VA
1,319 · 9,396 ac WI
1,110 · 2,319 ac WA
1,087 · 94,486 ac MS
1,086 · 12,971 ac MT
1,028 · 32,416 ac MN
982 · 2,897 ac NM
891 · 48,119 ac LA
887 · 10,274 ac TN
801 · 5,739 ac KS
796 · 8,612 ac WV
705 · 2,563 ac ME
684 · 1,605 ac OK
614 · 70,995 ac
03 Top counties

Smoking hotspots by county

Top 50 counties by cumulative smoking incidents.

#CountyStateIncidentsAcres
1 Monroe County NY 995 974 ac
2 Riverside County CA 941 2,251 ac
3 Los Angeles County CA 689 1,771 ac
4 Rockland County NY 530 935 ac
5 Atlantic County NJ 363 262 ac
6 Nassau County NY 341 106 ac
7 Suffolk County NY 335 155 ac
8 Ocean County NJ 323 871 ac
9 Josephine County OR 312 160 ac
10 Burlington County NJ 295 229 ac
11 Ulster County NY 262 4,002 ac
12 Contra Costa County CA 253 74 ac
13 Westchester County NY 252 270 ac
14 Erie County NY 232 69 ac
15 Orange County NY 214 918 ac
16 San Bernardino County CA 213 641 ac
17 Cumberland County NJ 202 130 ac
18 El Paso County CO 200 96 ac
19 Morris County NJ 195 112 ac
20 Jackson County OR 192 122 ac
21 Queens County NY 189 50 ac
22 Deschutes County OR 184 392 ac
23 Shasta County CA 183 371 ac
24 Coconino County AZ 179 5,071 ac
25 Laurens County GA 179 429 ac
26 Placer County CA 178 93 ac
27 Dutchess County NY 173 745 ac
28 Fresno County CA 171 2,168 ac
29 Mesa County CO 170 556 ac
30 Pinal County AZ 167 271 ac
31 San Diego County CA 161 110 ac
32 Somerset County NJ 160 183 ac
33 Orangeburg County SC 160 1,272 ac
34 Sullivan County NY 158 180 ac
35 Monmouth County NJ 157 89 ac
36 Arapahoe County CO 152 68 ac
37 Norfolk County MA 150 39 ac
38 El Dorado County CA 148 887 ac
39 Klamath County OR 147 683 ac
40 Merced County CA 139 325 ac
41 Tulare County CA 138 76 ac
42 Panola County MS 135 2,564 ac
43 Kaufman County TX 132 327 ac
44 Broome County NY 131 110 ac
45 Orange County CA 130 25 ac
46 Wilkinson County GA 130 366 ac
47 Cape May County NJ 130 56 ac
48 Albany County NY 127 88 ac
49 Saratoga County NY 127 158 ac
50 Kings County NY 126 13 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.