In 2025, fire departments serving Bixby responded to 156 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $200K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 59% of all calls.
Dec peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
754 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $4.4M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022 | 215 | — | |
| 2023 | 173 | -19.5% | |
| 2024 | 209 | +20.8% | |
| 2025 | 156 | -25.4% |
* Well below Bixby'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 9 building fires Bixby departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 182 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 | 32 | 17.6% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 30 | 16.5% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 20 | 11.0% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 14 | 7.7% | |
| 5 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 11 | 6.0% | |
| 6 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 10 | 5.5% | |
| 7 | Other | 9 | 4.9% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 6 | 3.3% | |
| 9 | Storage area, other | 5 | 2.7% | |
| 10 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 4 | 2.2% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 41 | 22.5% |
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 Bixby mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 89 | 48.9% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 19 | 10.4% | |
| 3 | Lightning | 10 | 5.5% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 9 | 4.9% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 9 | 4.9% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 7 | 3.8% | |
| 7 | Heat source: other | 6 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 6 | 3.3% | |
| 9 | Fireworks | 5 | 2.7% | |
| 10 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 4 | 2.2% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 18 | 9.9% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Bixby departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 97% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $20,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $10,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $10,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $5,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Bixby sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
6 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 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 2 | |
| 30-39 | 0 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 283,496 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Smoking | 58,501 | 31.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 21,860 | 29.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 16,423 | 46.2 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14,000 | 31.6 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14,000 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,880 | 44.8 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10,816 | 33.7 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10,216 | 37.2 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,636 | 35.1 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 9,429 | 49.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,080 | 27.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8,792 | 27.3 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 Bixby. 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.