In 2025, fire departments serving Greenhills responded to 16 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $70K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 88% of all calls.
Nov peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
65 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $70K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | — | |
| 2022* | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | 17 | — | |
| 2024 | 16 | -5.9% | |
| 2025 | 16 | +0.0% |
* Well below Greenhills'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 6 building fires Greenhills departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 3 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 66.7% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 33.3% |
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 Greenhills mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 33.3% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 33.3% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 1 | 33.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Greenhills departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $70,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Greenhills sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 23 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 623 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 125 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 57 | 26.3 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 53 | 25.9 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 | 40.8 mi | |
| 2004 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 49.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 38.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 25 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 25 | 19.5 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 | 28.3 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 | 37.4 mi | |
| 2018 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 20 | 20.0 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 | 48.4 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 | 45218 | 65 |
Six Ohio cities with population within ±25% of Greenhills. 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.