In 2025, fire departments serving Adena responded to 14 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 100% of all calls.
Dec peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
95 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $53K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | — | |
| 2022 | 15 | -42.3% | |
| 2023* | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | 31 | — | |
| 2025 | 14 | -54.8% |
* Well below Adena's usual volume. That almost always means one or more departments didn't submit a full year to NFIRS, not that fires dropped, so no year-over-year change is shown for it.
For the 8 building fires Adena departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 18 building fires investigators classified across 2021–2025. The room or location where ignition occurred — kitchens, bedrooms, exterior, vehicle areas — tells you where to focus prevention.
| # | Area of origin | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 8 | 44.4% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 3 | 16.7% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 4 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 7 | Outside area, other | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 8 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 5.6% |
NFIRS Heat Source (HEAT_SOURC) — the physical thing that started it. Spark or ember from operating equipment, an open flame, smoking materials, or hot embers from a fireplace are the leading culprits nationwide. Here's the Adena mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 9 | 50.0% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 4 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 11.1% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Match | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 7 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 1 | 5.6% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Adena sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,242 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 175 | 30.6 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 26.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 41.0 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 | 38.0 mi | |
| 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | 75 | 43.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 | 46.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 60 | 32.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 | 22.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 48 | 19.8 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 40 | 23.6 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 43901 | 95 |
Six Ohio cities with population within ±25% of Adena. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Adena.
A 30-minute weekend can cut your home's exposure substantially. These four checklists are a good starting point.
Numbers reflect incidents reported by participating fire departments to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Public Data Release for calendar year 2025. NFIRS is voluntary — about 23,000 of roughly 30,000 US fire departments report — so totals are a strong indicator, not a complete census. Per-capita comparisons use 2023 ACS population estimates. Wildland fire data complements NFIRS with NIFC and USFS perimeters. Active-fire counts come from a dated NIFC snapshot, not a live feed.