In 2025, fire departments serving Bondurant responded to 65 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 62% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
145 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $520K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | 21 | — | |
| 2023* | 16 | — | |
| 2024 | 36 | — | |
| 2025 | 65 | +80.6% |
* Well below Bondurant'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 8 building fires Bondurant departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 40 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 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 7 | 17.5% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 6 | 15.0% | |
| 3 | Other | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 9 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 1 | 2.5% | |
| 10 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 2.5% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 10 | 25.0% |
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 Bondurant mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 12 | 30.0% | |
| 2 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 5 | 12.5% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 4 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 4 | 10.0% | |
| 5 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 4 | 10.0% | |
| 6 | Heat source: other | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 7 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 8 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 9 | Cigarette lighter | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 10 | Explosive, fireworks, other | 1 | 2.5% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Bondurant departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $2,500 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $200 | Grass fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Bondurant sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
8 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 | 4 | |
| 10-19 | 1 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 2 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 0 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 6,327 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 1,000 | 46.9 mi | |
| 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 700 | 6.7 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 500 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2004 | Debris and open burning | 400 | 44.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 346 | 36.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 320 | 35.7 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 250 | 46.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 175 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 175 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 160 | 47.3 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Iowa cities with population within ±25% of Bondurant. 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.