In 2025, fire departments serving Blandon responded to 15 fire and hazmat incidents . 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 87% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
60 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | — | |
| 2022 | 12 | -45.5% | |
| 2023* | 2 | — | |
| 2024 | 9 | — | |
| 2025 | 15 | +66.7% |
* Well below Blandon'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 4 building fires Blandon departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 5 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 | 2 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 1 | 20.0% |
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 Blandon mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 2 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Fireworks | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 20.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Blandon sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 7,502 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 935 | 40.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 848 | 25.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 741 | 17.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 674 | 48.0 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 336 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 328 | 40.1 mi | |
| 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 325 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 308 | 34.4 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 282 | 31.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 263 | 31.5 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 258 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 257 | 42.0 mi |
Top 3 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 Blandon. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Blandon.
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.