In 2025, fire departments serving Fairview Park responded to 101 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $175K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Electrical wiring/equipment problem, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 68% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
516 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $1.1M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 51 | — | |
| 2022 | 72 | — | |
| 2023 | 149 | +106.9% | |
| 2024 | 143 | -4.0% | |
| 2025 | 101 | -29.4% |
* Well below Fairview Park'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 10 building fires Fairview Park departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 69 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 | 11 | 15.9% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 7 | 10.1% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 7 | 10.1% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 6 | 8.7% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 5 | 7.2% | |
| 6 | Other | 4 | 5.8% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 3 | 4.3% | |
| 8 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 4.3% | |
| 9 | Undetermined | 3 | 4.3% | |
| 10 | Closet | 2 | 2.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 18 | 26.1% |
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 Fairview Park mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 26 | 37.7% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 6 | 8.7% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 6 | 8.7% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 5 | 7.2% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 4 | 5.8% | |
| 6 | Cigarette | 4 | 5.8% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 4.3% | |
| 8 | Heat source: other | 2 | 2.9% | |
| 9 | Explosive, fireworks, other | 2 | 2.9% | |
| 10 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 2.9% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 9 | 13.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Fairview Park departments in 2025. These 6 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $175,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $2,000 | Outside rubbish, trash or waste fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $1,000 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $1,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $100 | Outside rubbish, trash or waste fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Fairview Park sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 8 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 545 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 400 | 30.8 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 49.4 mi | |
| 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 25 | 40.3 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 | 43.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 20 | 40.3 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 | 42.5 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 39.8 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Ohio cities with population within ±25% of Fairview Park. 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.