In 2025, fire departments serving Arkoma responded to 16 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $6K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Trash or rubbish fire, contained lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 69% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
76 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $269K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | — | |
| 2022* | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | 24 | +60.0% | |
| 2025 | 16 | -33.3% |
* Well below Arkoma'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 1 building fires Arkoma departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 23 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 | 5 | 21.7% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 5 | 21.7% | |
| 3 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 3 | 13.0% | |
| 4 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 8.7% | |
| 5 | Vehicle area, other | 2 | 8.7% | |
| 6 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 8.7% | |
| 7 | Corridor, mall | 1 | 4.3% | |
| 8 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 4.3% | |
| 9 | Exterior, exposed surface | 1 | 4.3% | |
| 10 | Vacant structural area | 1 | 4.3% |
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 Arkoma mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 20 | 87.0% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 1 | 4.3% | |
| 3 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 4.3% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 4.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Arkoma departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $6,000 | Prescribed fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Arkoma sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 86,073 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14,000 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,540 | 47.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,370 | 37.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,050 | 40.7 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,900 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,800 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,700 | 42.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,700 | 43.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,285 | 33.8 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,240 | 23.8 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,220 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,200 | 43.7 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 | 74901 | 76 |
Six Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Arkoma. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Arkoma.
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.