In 2025, fire departments serving Davenport responded to 13 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $20K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 69% of all calls.
Mar peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
75 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $471K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 29 | — | |
| 2023 | 14 | -51.7% | |
| 2024 | 16 | +14.3% | |
| 2025 | 13 | -18.8% |
* Well below Davenport'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 2 building fires Davenport departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 40 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 | 7 | 17.5% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 6 | 15.0% | |
| 3 | Other | 4 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Wildland, woods | 4 | 10.0% | |
| 5 | Undetermined | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 6 | Corridor, mall | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 7 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 8 | Storage area, other | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 9 | Structural area, other | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 10 | Wall surface: exterior | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 6 | 15.0% |
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 Davenport mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 17 | 42.5% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 5 | 12.5% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 4 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Hot ember or ash | 3 | 7.5% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 5.0% | |
| 7 | Heat source: other | 1 | 2.5% | |
| 8 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Heat, spark from friction | 1 | 2.5% | |
| 10 | Molten, hot material | 1 | 2.5% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 3 | 7.5% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Davenport departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $20,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $15,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $500 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Davenport sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 277,638 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 | 25.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 21,860 | 38.6 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17,299 | 47.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 16,423 | 14.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14,000 | 35.7 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10,816 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9,600 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 9,429 | 33.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,080 | 37.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,954 | 42.2 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8,792 | 33.0 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,600 | 42.1 mi |
Top 3 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 Davenport. 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.