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In 2025, fire departments serving Crescent City responded to 379 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $300K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Unauthorized burning lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 67% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,446 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $3.7M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 331 | — | |
| 2022 | 346 | +4.5% | |
| 2023* | 127 | — | |
| 2024 | 263 | — | |
| 2025 | 379 | +44.1% |
* Well below Crescent City'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 25 building fires Crescent City departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 585 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 | Undetermined | 207 | 35.4% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 147 | 25.1% | |
| 3 | Wildland, woods | 48 | 8.2% | |
| 4 | Other | 18 | 3.1% | |
| 5 | Function area, other | 14 | 2.4% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 14 | 2.4% | |
| 7 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 14 | 2.4% | |
| 8 | Cooking area, kitchen | 12 | 2.1% | |
| 9 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 9 | 1.5% | |
| 10 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 7 | 1.2% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 95 | 16.2% |
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 Crescent City mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 392 | 67.0% | |
| 2 | Cigarette lighter | 41 | 7.0% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 21 | 3.6% | |
| 4 | Match | 21 | 3.6% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 14 | 2.4% | |
| 6 | Cigarette | 14 | 2.4% | |
| 7 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 11 | 1.9% | |
| 8 | Arcing | 11 | 1.9% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 8 | 1.4% | |
| 10 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 7 | 1.2% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 45 | 7.7% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Crescent City departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 92% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $300,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $165,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $75,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $60,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $40,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $25,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Crescent City sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,470,448 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Natural | 499,945 | 23.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 191,125 | 38.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 157,270 | 43.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Natural | 115,279 | 43.0 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 87,701 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 65,834 | 34.0 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 45,403 | 36.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 44,452 | 41.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 38,134 | 35.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Natural | 28,953 | 30.0 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 22,283 | 48.9 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 21,301 | 47.4 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 Crescent City. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Crescent City.
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.