In 2025, fire departments serving Coweta responded to 81 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $80K 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 54% of all calls.
May peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
506 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $2.0M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 4 | — | |
| 2022 | 175 | — | |
| 2023 | 114 | -34.9% | |
| 2024 | 132 | +15.8% | |
| 2025 | 81 | -38.6% |
* Well below Coweta'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 Coweta departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 234 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 52 | 22.2% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 37 | 15.8% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 23 | 9.8% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 20 | 8.5% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 19 | 8.1% | |
| 6 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 9 | 3.8% | |
| 7 | Wildland, woods | 9 | 3.8% | |
| 8 | Other | 8 | 3.4% | |
| 9 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 4 | 1.7% | |
| 10 | Conduit, pipe, utility, or ventilation shaft | 4 | 1.7% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 49 | 20.9% |
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 Coweta mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 94 | 40.2% | |
| 2 | Hot ember or ash | 23 | 9.8% | |
| 3 | Cigarette lighter | 14 | 6.0% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 13 | 5.6% | |
| 5 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 13 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 12 | 5.1% | |
| 7 | Arcing | 11 | 4.7% | |
| 8 | Fireworks | 7 | 3.0% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 7 | 3.0% | |
| 10 | Match | 7 | 3.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 33 | 14.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Coweta departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 97% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $80,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $60,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $35,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $10,000 | Mobile property (vehicle) fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $10,000 | Outside equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Coweta sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 260,306 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Smoking | 58,501 | 43.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 21,860 | 38.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14,000 | 40.5 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14,000 | 32.5 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,880 | 40.4 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10,816 | 42.4 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10,216 | 45.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,636 | 43.5 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,080 | 35.9 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8,792 | 39.2 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,500 | 33.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 8,080 | 21.3 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 Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Coweta. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Coweta.
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.