In 2025, fire departments serving Genesee responded to 14 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Natural vegetation fire, other lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 71% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
77 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. 11 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | — | |
| 2022 | 15 | -48.3% | |
| 2023 | 14 | -6.7% | |
| 2024* | 5 | — | |
| 2025 | 14 | — |
* Well below Genesee'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 1 building fires Genesee departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 18 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 | 44.4% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 4 | 22.2% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 3 | 16.7% | |
| 4 | Storage area, other | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 5 | Wall assembly | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 5.6% |
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 Genesee mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 5 | 27.8% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 4 | 22.2% | |
| 3 | Hot ember or ash | 4 | 22.2% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 7 | Cigarette | 1 | 5.6% | |
| 8 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 5.6% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Genesee sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
11 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 | 10 | |
| 20-29 | 0 | |
| 30-39 | 0 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 0 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 9,002 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,000 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,329 | 42.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 917 | 42.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 605 | 47.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 348 | 42.9 mi | |
| 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 236 | 41.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 150 | 19.5 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 130 | 33.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Smoking | 120 | 22.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 116 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 33.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Natural | 99 | 40.0 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16923 | 77 |
Six Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Genesee. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Genesee.
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.