In 2025, fire departments serving Hawthorne responded to 21 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Carbon monoxide incident lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 71% of all calls.
Nov peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
136 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | — | |
| 2022 | 44 | +100.0% | |
| 2023 | 36 | -18.2% | |
| 2024* | 13 | — | |
| 2025 | 21 | — |
* Well below Hawthorne'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 0 building fires Hawthorne departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 2 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 | 100.0% |
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 Hawthorne mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat source: other | 1 | 50.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 1 | 50.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hawthorne sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 13,757 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2,759 | 48.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,028 | 48.8 mi | |
| 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1,000 | 47.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 20.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 16.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 19.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 550 | 41.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 485 | 21.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 481 | 16.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 468 | 20.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | 410 | 15.5 mi | |
| 2002 | Natural | 388 | 49.2 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 | 10532 | 136 |
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Hawthorne. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Hawthorne.
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.