In 2025, fire departments serving Greenwood responded to 10 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $40K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Passenger vehicle fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 70% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
61 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $1.0M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | — | |
| 2022* | 6 | — | |
| 2023* | 5 | — | |
| 2024 | 24 | — | |
| 2025 | 10 | -58.3% |
* Well below Greenwood'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 Greenwood departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 25 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 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 9 | 36.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 4 | 16.0% | |
| 3 | Exterior stairway, ramp, or fire escape | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 4 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 6 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 8 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 9 | Conduit, pipe, utility, or ventilation shaft | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 10 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 4 | 16.0% |
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 | 11 | 44.0% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 4 | 16.0% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 12.0% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 2 | 8.0% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 6 | Arcing | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 7 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 8 | Cigarette lighter | 1 | 4.0% | |
| 9 | Lightning | 1 | 4.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Greenwood departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $40,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $10,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $4,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Greenwood sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 2,977 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 553 | 19.3 mi | |
| 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 250 | 20.6 mi | |
| 1996 | Smoking | 187 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 159 | 37.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 153 | 35.9 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 124 | 46.2 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 122 | 44.5 mi | |
| 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 113 | 22.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 112 | 49.5 mi | |
| 2004 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 109 | 43.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 104 | 13.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 101 | 43.5 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 Wisconsin cities with population within ±25% of Greenwood. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 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.