In 2025, fire departments serving Douglas responded to 38 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100 building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Hazardous condition, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 87% of all calls.
Feb peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
131 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $35K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 43 | — | |
| 2023 | 43 | +0.0% | |
| 2024* | 7 | — | |
| 2025 | 38 | — |
* Well below Douglas'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 1 building fires Douglas departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 1 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 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 100.0% |
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 Douglas mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 100.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Douglas departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100 | Electrical wiring/equipment problem, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Douglas sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 613,359 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 222,954 | 37.2 mi | |
| 2009 | Natural | 95,000 | 39.9 mi | |
| 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41,800 | 42.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30,526 | 41.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Natural | 27,720 | 40.2 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 23,680 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 23,600 | 39.9 mi | |
| 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18,000 | 44.8 mi | |
| 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | 16,802 | 28.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,000 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,950 | 22.2 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 8,609 | 35.6 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 85607 | 131 |
Six Arizona cities with population within ±25% of Douglas. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Douglas.
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.