In 2025, fire departments serving Allison Park responded to 21 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $10K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Allison Park's departments reported 21 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 148 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 57% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
738 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $10K cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 219 | — | |
| 2022 | 205 | -6.4% | |
| 2023 | 241 | +17.6% | |
| 2024* | 52 | — | |
| 2025* | 21 | — |
* Well below Allison Park'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 5 building fires Allison Park departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 63 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 12 | 19.0% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 10 | 15.9% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 9 | 14.3% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 5 | 7.9% | |
| 5 | Wildland, woods | 4 | 6.3% | |
| 6 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 4.8% | |
| 7 | Storage: supplies or tools; dead storage | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 8 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | Structural area, other | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 10 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 12 | 19.0% |
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 Allison Park mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 32 | 50.8% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 6 | 9.5% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 5 | 7.9% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 4 | 6.3% | |
| 5 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 3 | 4.8% | |
| 6 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 7 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | Conducted heat from another fire | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 10 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 4 | 6.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Allison Park departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $10,000 | Fire in portable building, fixed location | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Allison Park sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
30 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 2 | |
| 20-29 | 6 | |
| 30-39 | 9 | |
| 40-49 | 5 | |
| 50-59 | 8 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,468 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 260 | 44.8 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 173 | 40.3 mi | |
| 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 152 | 33.3 mi | |
| 2013 | Debris and open burning | 106 | 30.2 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 | 48.9 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 76 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 | 45.6 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 48 | 34.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 36.0 mi | |
| 2003 | Debris and open burning | 41 | 42.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 38 | 43.3 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 | 49.9 mi |
Top 5 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Allison Park. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Allison Park.
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.