In 2025, fire departments serving Anchorage responded to 17 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 88% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
21 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022* | 0 | — | |
| 2023* | 2 | — | |
| 2024* | 2 | — | |
| 2025 | 17 | — |
* Well below Anchorage'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 0 building fires Anchorage departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Anchorage sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 2,653 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 354 | 25.1 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 | 27.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 182 | 44.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 157 | 46.7 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 144 | 29.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 117 | 49.1 mi | |
| 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 97 | 21.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 95 | 47.2 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 95 | 30.5 mi | |
| 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 94 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 92 | 33.6 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 | 40223 | 21 |
Six Kentucky cities with population within ±25% of Anchorage. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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.