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In 2025, fire departments serving Calistoga responded to 108 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $200K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Hazardous condition, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 66% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Apr dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
486 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $1.9M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 11 | — | |
| 2022 | 118 | — | |
| 2023 | 109 | -7.6% | |
| 2024 | 140 | +28.4% | |
| 2025 | 108 | -22.9% |
* Well below Calistoga'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 Calistoga departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 49 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 | 9 | 18.4% | |
| 2 | Other | 4 | 8.2% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 4 | 8.2% | |
| 4 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 4 | 8.2% | |
| 5 | Undetermined | 4 | 8.2% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 7 | Switchgear area, transformer vault | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 8 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 9 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 10 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 14 | 28.6% |
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 Calistoga mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 26 | 53.1% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 6 | 12.2% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 3 | 6.1% | |
| 4 | Chemical reaction | 3 | 6.1% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 6 | Arcing | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 8 | Cigarette | 2 | 4.1% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 10 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 1 | 2.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Calistoga departments in 2025. These 6 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $200,000 | Building or structure weakened or collapsed | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $180,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $20,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $2,500 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $50 | Special outside fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Calistoga sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
5 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 | 0 | |
| 30-39 | 1 | |
| 40-49 | 1 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,160,347 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Natural | 305,651 | 14.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Other causes | 90,288 | 26.0 mi | |
| 2019 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 76,825 | 17.8 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 76,067 | 20.5 mi | |
| 2015 | Other causes | 69,363 | 23.3 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 67,484 | 3.4 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 56,556 | 13.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 55,209 | 27.5 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51,624 | 22.5 mi | |
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48,920 | 44.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 40,000 | 29.2 mi | |
| 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39,138 | 28.5 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 | 94515 | 485 |
Six California cities with population within ±25% of Calistoga. 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.