In 2025, fire departments serving Fishers responded to 184 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $80K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 53% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Sep dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,188 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $6.8M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 236 | — | |
| 2022 | 255 | +8.1% | |
| 2023 | 261 | +2.4% | |
| 2024 | 252 | -3.4% | |
| 2025 | 184 | -27.0% |
For the 15 building fires Fishers departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 441 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 58 | 13.2% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 56 | 12.7% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 51 | 11.6% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 50 | 11.3% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 48 | 10.9% | |
| 6 | Cooking area, kitchen | 47 | 10.7% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 13 | 2.9% | |
| 8 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 10 | 2.3% | |
| 9 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 9 | 2.0% | |
| 10 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 9 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 90 | 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 Fishers mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 207 | 46.9% | |
| 2 | Cigarette | 34 | 7.7% | |
| 3 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 24 | 5.4% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 22 | 5.0% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 19 | 4.3% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 18 | 4.1% | |
| 7 | Hot ember or ash | 18 | 4.1% | |
| 8 | Fireworks | 11 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Heat, spark from friction | 10 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | Lightning | 10 | 2.3% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 68 | 15.4% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Fishers departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 98% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $80,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $37,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $25,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $12,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $8,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Fishers sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
5 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 | 0 | |
| 30-39 | 2 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 4 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,880 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,549 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 165 | 47.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 156 | 47.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 | 46.8 mi |
Top 6 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Indiana cities with population within ±25% of Fishers. 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.