In 2025, fire departments serving Fallon responded to 255 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $1.5M building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 66% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,009 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $9.2M cumulative property loss. 3 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 26 | — | |
| 2022 | 177 | — | |
| 2023 | 231 | +30.5% | |
| 2024 | 320 | +38.5% | |
| 2025 | 255 | -20.3% |
* Well below Fallon'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 9 building fires Fallon departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 522 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 | 285 | 54.6% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 118 | 22.6% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 31 | 5.9% | |
| 4 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 20 | 3.8% | |
| 5 | Vehicle area, other | 14 | 2.7% | |
| 6 | Function area, other | 7 | 1.3% | |
| 7 | Cooking area, kitchen | 7 | 1.3% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 5 | 1.0% | |
| 9 | Other | 4 | 0.8% | |
| 10 | Storage area, other | 3 | 0.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 28 | 5.4% |
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 Fallon mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 294 | 56.3% | |
| 2 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 150 | 28.7% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 9 | 1.7% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 7 | 1.3% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 7 | 1.3% | |
| 6 | Arcing | 7 | 1.3% | |
| 7 | Cigarette lighter | 7 | 1.3% | |
| 8 | Hot ember or ash | 6 | 1.1% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 6 | 1.1% | |
| 10 | Heat source: other | 5 | 1.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 24 | 4.6% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Fallon departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 86% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $100,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $75,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $60,000 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $50,000 | Natural vegetation fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Fallon sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 380,089 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 98,960 | 32.2 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 42,563 | 42.5 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 41,545 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 27,506 | 48.7 mi | |
| 2017 | Firearms and explosives use | 23,387 | 39.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15,584 | 47.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 15,360 | 38.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 14,004 | 35.6 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 13,348 | 35.7 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,195 | 30.5 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 7,597 | 32.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 7,000 | 40.1 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 Nevada cities with population within ±25% of Fallon. 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.