In 2025, fire departments serving Enterprise responded to 10 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $1K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 90% of all calls.
Jan peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
34 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $344K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | 8 | +33.3% | |
| 2024 | 10 | +25.0% | |
| 2025 | 10 | +0.0% |
* Well below Enterprise'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 4 building fires Enterprise departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 12 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 | Vehicle area, other | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 3 | Corridor, mall | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 4 | Storage: supplies or tools; dead storage | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Exterior balcony, unenclosed porch | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Ceiling & floor assembly, crawl space b/t stories | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 8 | Wall surface: exterior | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 9 | Outside area, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 10 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 8.3% |
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 Enterprise mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 25.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 3 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 4 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Lightning | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 8.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Enterprise departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Enterprise sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 92,827 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 | 8,000 | 14.4 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,500 | 24.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,289 | 26.2 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,278 | 25.1 mi | |
| 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,000 | 40.7 mi | |
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 5,000 | 46.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,000 | 21.8 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,800 | 28.4 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,000 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,500 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,500 | 26.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 3,490 | 46.5 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 Kansas cities with population within ±25% of Enterprise. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Enterprise.
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.