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In 2025, fire departments serving El Centro responded to 285 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $500K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Dumpster or other outside trash receptacle fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 51% of all calls.
Sep peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,071 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $4.0M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 250 | — | |
| 2022 | 280 | +12.0% | |
| 2023 | 219 | -21.8% | |
| 2024* | 37 | — | |
| 2025 | 285 | — |
* Well below El Centro'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 21 building fires El Centro departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 661 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 | 148 | 22.4% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 127 | 19.2% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 72 | 10.9% | |
| 4 | Other | 58 | 8.8% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 40 | 6.1% | |
| 6 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 24 | 3.6% | |
| 7 | Cooking area, kitchen | 22 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 21 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | Railroad right of way: on or near | 15 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 11 | 1.7% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 123 | 18.6% |
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 El Centro mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 532 | 80.5% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 20 | 3.0% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 18 | 2.7% | |
| 4 | Cigarette lighter | 14 | 2.1% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 13 | 2.0% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 12 | 1.8% | |
| 7 | Hot ember or ash | 11 | 1.7% | |
| 8 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 6 | 0.9% | |
| 9 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 6 | 0.9% | |
| 10 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 4 | 0.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 25 | 3.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by El Centro departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 71% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $500,000 | Cultivated grain or crop fire | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $300,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $250,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 4 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $175,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $100,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. El Centro sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
12 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 | 1 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 5 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 2 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 1 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 16,274 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,910 | 41.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,291 | 49.2 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,650 | 27.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 | 37.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 995 | 48.3 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 821 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 745 | 48.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 631 | 45.2 mi | |
| 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 420 | 32.5 mi | |
| 1995 | Debris and open burning | 303 | 45.8 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 300 | 44.0 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 291 | 49.8 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 California cities with population within ±25% of El Centro. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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.