In 2025, fire departments serving Claypool responded to 22 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $8K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 59% of all calls.
Dec peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
85 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $898K cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 13 | — | |
| 2022 | 23 | +76.9% | |
| 2023* | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | 19 | — | |
| 2025 | 22 | +15.8% |
* Well below Claypool'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 3 building fires Claypool departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 31 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 | 6 | 19.4% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 6 | 19.4% | |
| 3 | Function area, other | 3 | 9.7% | |
| 4 | Processing/manufacturing area, workroom | 2 | 6.5% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 6.5% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 7 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 8 | Computer room, control room or center | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | Storage area, other | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 10 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 7 | 22.6% |
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 Claypool mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 13 | 41.9% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 7 | 22.6% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 6.5% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 8 | Molten, hot material | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 10 | Fireworks | 1 | 3.2% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 2 | 6.5% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Claypool departments in 2025. These 2 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $8,000 | Mobile property (vehicle) fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Claypool sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 980,912 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 193,455 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 123,875 | 21.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Natural | 73,682 | 49.9 mi | |
| 2005 | Natural | 72,000 | 40.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 61,821 | 14.6 mi | |
| 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 58,960 | 35.2 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 33,826 | 31.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Natural | 33,633 | 36.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Natural | 30,641 | 33.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 30,408 | 28.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 29,639 | 26.1 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 28,051 | 31.8 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 Arizona cities with population within ±25% of Claypool. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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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.