In 2025, fire departments serving East Aurora responded to 47 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100 building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 81% of all calls.
Jul peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
106 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $121 cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 8 | — | |
| 2022 | 21 | — | |
| 2023* | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | 20 | — | |
| 2025 | 47 | +135.0% |
* Well below East Aurora'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 7 building fires East Aurora departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Largest single-incident property losses reported by East Aurora departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100 | Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $10 | Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $10 | Power line down | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. East Aurora sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 658 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 88 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 72 | 47.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 | 46.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 48 | 44.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Debris and open burning | 44 | 40.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 42 | 44.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 47.2 mi | |
| 1995 | Smoking | 25 | 27.9 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 23 | 44.7 mi | |
| 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 | 47.2 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 20 | 40.1 mi | |
| 1995 | Smoking | 20 | 31.1 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of East Aurora. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in East Aurora.
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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.