In 2025, fire departments serving Easton responded to 257 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $80K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Easton's departments reported 257 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 464 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 59% of all calls.
May peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
2,320 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $579K cumulative property loss. 2 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 454 | — | |
| 2022 | 603 | +32.8% | |
| 2023 | 550 | -8.8% | |
| 2024 | 456 | -17.1% | |
| 2025* | 257 | — |
* Well below Easton'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 26 building fires Easton departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 716 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 314 | 43.9% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 70 | 9.8% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 38 | 5.3% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 31 | 4.3% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 29 | 4.1% | |
| 6 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 29 | 4.1% | |
| 7 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 18 | 2.5% | |
| 8 | Other | 15 | 2.1% | |
| 9 | Exterior balcony, unenclosed porch | 13 | 1.8% | |
| 10 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 13 | 1.8% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 146 | 20.4% |
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 Easton mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 320 | 44.7% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 228 | 31.8% | |
| 3 | Hot ember or ash | 26 | 3.6% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 19 | 2.7% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 16 | 2.2% | |
| 6 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 13 | 1.8% | |
| 7 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 13 | 1.8% | |
| 8 | Cigarette | 11 | 1.5% | |
| 9 | Cigarette lighter | 11 | 1.5% | |
| 10 | Heat source: other | 10 | 1.4% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 49 | 6.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Easton departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $80,000 | Outside storage fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $1,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $100 | Special outside fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Easton sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
39 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 6 | |
| 30-39 | 11 | |
| 40-49 | 5 | |
| 50-59 | 10 | |
| 60-69 | 6 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 1 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 23,306 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 7,949 | 36.6 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,265 | 33.4 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,126 | 49.0 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 995 | 39.6 mi | |
| 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 848 | 25.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 812 | 32.7 mi | |
| 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 750 | 22.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 741 | 43.3 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 674 | 38.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 647 | 33.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 623 | 22.1 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 615 | 39.5 mi |
Top 9 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Easton. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Easton.
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.