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In 2025, fire departments serving Havana responded to 75 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Trash or rubbish fire, contained lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 79% of all calls.
Mar peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
560 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $1.1M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 192 | — | |
| 2022 | 167 | -13.0% | |
| 2023 | 75 | -55.1% | |
| 2024* | 51 | — | |
| 2025 | 75 | — |
* Well below Havana'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 9 building fires Havana departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 110 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 | Undetermined | 61 | 55.5% | |
| 2 | Other | 28 | 25.5% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 5 | 4.5% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 3 | 2.7% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 1.8% | |
| 6 | Storage area, other | 2 | 1.8% | |
| 7 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 2 | 1.8% | |
| 8 | Function area, other | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 9 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 10 | Equipment or service area, other | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 4 | 3.6% |
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 Havana mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 75 | 68.2% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 24 | 21.8% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 3 | 2.7% | |
| 4 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 1.8% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 7 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 8 | Cigarette lighter | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 9 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 1 | 0.9% | |
| 10 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 0.9% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Havana departments in 2025. These 5 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $80,000 | Fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $35,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $20,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $15,000 | Fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Havana sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 116,302 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 26,279 | 36.1 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 24,602 | 32.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,458 | 40.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7,498 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 6,679 | 41.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 6,675 | 25.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,622 | 43.3 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,384 | 44.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2,624 | 32.3 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,614 | 42.7 mi | |
| 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,367 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2019 | Natural | 2,246 | 22.2 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 | 32333 | 560 |
Six Florida cities with population within ±25% of Havana. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Havana.
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.