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In 2025, fire departments serving Coalinga responded to 208 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $3.0M 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.
Jun peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
873 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $12.3M cumulative property loss. 6 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 147 | — | |
| 2022* | 72 | — | |
| 2023 | 201 | — | |
| 2024 | 245 | +21.9% | |
| 2025 | 208 | -15.1% |
* Well below Coalinga'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 22 building fires Coalinga departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 231 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 | 57 | 24.7% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 30 | 13.0% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 19 | 8.2% | |
| 4 | Vehicle area, other | 16 | 6.9% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 10 | 4.3% | |
| 6 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 9 | 3.9% | |
| 7 | Other | 8 | 3.5% | |
| 8 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 7 | 3.0% | |
| 9 | Cooking area, kitchen | 6 | 2.6% | |
| 10 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 6 | 2.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 63 | 27.3% |
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 Coalinga mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 88 | 38.1% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 23 | 10.0% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 20 | 8.7% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 18 | 7.8% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 13 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Heat, spark from friction | 12 | 5.2% | |
| 7 | Fireworks | 9 | 3.9% | |
| 8 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 8 | 3.5% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 8 | 3.5% | |
| 10 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 6 | 2.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 26 | 11.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Coalinga departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 92% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $3,000,000 | Electrical wiring/equipment problem, other | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $1,000,000 | Special outside fire, other | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $100,000 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $75,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $60,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $50,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Coalinga sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
12 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 | 3 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 3 | |
| 40-49 | 2 | |
| 50-59 | 0 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 275,462 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 48,000 | 24.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46,235 | 49.6 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29,667 | 11.5 mi | |
| 1996 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 19,839 | 14.6 mi | |
| 1996 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 18,340 | 38.0 mi | |
| 1993 | Natural | 16,000 | 29.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 14,507 | 24.7 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,000 | 2.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 8,400 | 25.4 mi | |
| 1995 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7,495 | 47.8 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7,050 | 11.6 mi | |
| 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5,738 | 6.3 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 California cities with population within ±25% of Coalinga. 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.