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In 2025, fire departments serving Foresthill responded to 70 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $15K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Authorized controlled burning lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 81% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Aug dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
451 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.1M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 93 | — | |
| 2022 | 121 | +30.1% | |
| 2023 | 114 | -5.8% | |
| 2024* | 53 | — | |
| 2025 | 70 | — |
* Well below Foresthill'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 2 building fires Foresthill departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 51 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 | 8 | 15.7% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 5 | 9.8% | |
| 3 | Wildland, woods | 5 | 9.8% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 5 | 9.8% | |
| 5 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 3 | 5.9% | |
| 6 | Wall surface: exterior | 3 | 5.9% | |
| 7 | Vehicle area, other | 3 | 5.9% | |
| 8 | Other | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 9 | Function area, other | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 10 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 13 | 25.5% |
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 Foresthill mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 18 | 35.3% | |
| 2 | Hot ember or ash | 9 | 17.6% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 4 | 7.8% | |
| 4 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 3 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 6 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 7 | Arcing | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 8 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 9 | Conducted heat from another fire | 2 | 3.9% | |
| 10 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 6 | 11.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Foresthill departments in 2025. These 2 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $15,000 | Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $1,700 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Foresthill sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
9 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 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 3 | |
| 40-49 | 2 | |
| 50-59 | 2 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 420,303 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 97,717 | 19.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70,868 | 46.4 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 46,800 | 46.2 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27,440 | 12.7 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24,580 | 26.0 mi | |
| 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16,823 | 47.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16,761 | 17.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Other causes | 11,725 | 35.0 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 10,836 | 14.3 mi | |
| 1996 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,820 | 34.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 9,164 | 17.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,422 | 7.0 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 Foresthill. 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.