In 2025, fire departments serving Anadarko responded to 83 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $75K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 60% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
375 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $2.0M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 77 | — | |
| 2022 | 104 | +35.1% | |
| 2023 | 89 | -14.4% | |
| 2024* | 22 | — | |
| 2025 | 83 | — |
* Well below Anadarko'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 13 building fires Anadarko departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 175 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 | Outside area, other | 38 | 21.7% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 19 | 10.9% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 15 | 8.6% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 14 | 8.0% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 10 | 5.7% | |
| 6 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 9 | 5.1% | |
| 7 | Function area, other | 8 | 4.6% | |
| 8 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 8 | 4.6% | |
| 9 | Other | 4 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | Storage area, other | 4 | 2.3% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 46 | 26.3% |
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 Anadarko mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 81 | 46.3% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 16 | 9.1% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 13 | 7.4% | |
| 4 | Hot ember or ash | 12 | 6.9% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 11 | 6.3% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 5 | 2.9% | |
| 7 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 5 | 2.9% | |
| 8 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 4 | 2.3% | |
| 9 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 3 | 1.7% | |
| 10 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 3 | 1.7% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 22 | 12.6% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Anadarko departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 87% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $75,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $24,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $20,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $15,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $13,815 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $10,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Anadarko sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 198,943 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 39,907 | 32.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26,000 | 41.9 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17,835 | 37.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12,500 | 48.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Firearms and explosives use | 10,471 | 32.9 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 10,206 | 33.2 mi | |
| 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8,000 | 44.0 mi | |
| 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,782 | 33.2 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,766 | 32.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,500 | 23.2 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,760 | 31.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 5,430 | 24.9 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Anadarko. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Anadarko.
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.