In 2025, fire departments serving Greenwood responded to 448 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $376K 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 47% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Sep dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
2,543 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $5.9M cumulative property loss. 2 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 481 | — | |
| 2022 | 525 | +9.1% | |
| 2023 | 491 | -6.5% | |
| 2024 | 598 | +21.8% | |
| 2025 | 448 | -25.1% |
For the 51 building fires Greenwood departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 623 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 | 104 | 16.7% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 99 | 15.9% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 85 | 13.6% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 54 | 8.7% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 42 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Other | 28 | 4.5% | |
| 7 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 22 | 3.5% | |
| 8 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 18 | 2.9% | |
| 9 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 14 | 2.2% | |
| 10 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 12 | 1.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 145 | 23.3% |
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 Greenwood mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 287 | 46.1% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 44 | 7.1% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 44 | 7.1% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 34 | 5.5% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 31 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 30 | 4.8% | |
| 7 | Heat source: other | 25 | 4.0% | |
| 8 | Cigarette lighter | 24 | 3.9% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 18 | 2.9% | |
| 10 | Match | 12 | 1.9% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 74 | 11.9% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Greenwood departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 71% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $376,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $100,000 | 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 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $75,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $75,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Greenwood sits below 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 | 3 | |
| 30-39 | 2 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 3 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 1 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 2,452 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 | 18.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 165 | 23.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 156 | 22.8 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 47 | 46.2 mi | |
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 47 | 39.5 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 | 49.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 37 | 36.9 mi | |
| 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 35 | 37.4 mi | |
| 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 34 | 44.5 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 30 | 44.5 mi | |
| 2000 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 38.1 mi |
Top 10 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 Greenwood. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Greenwood.
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.