In 2025, fire departments serving Haysville responded to 151 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $75K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 63% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
614 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $916K cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 10 | — | |
| 2022 | 132 | — | |
| 2023 | 103 | -22.0% | |
| 2024 | 218 | +111.7% | |
| 2025 | 151 | -30.7% |
* Well below Haysville'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 11 building fires Haysville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 157 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 | 36 | 22.9% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 26 | 16.6% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 18 | 11.5% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 15 | 9.6% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 9 | 5.7% | |
| 6 | Other | 8 | 5.1% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 7 | 4.5% | |
| 8 | Vehicle area, other | 4 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 4 | 2.5% | |
| 10 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 3 | 1.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 27 | 17.2% |
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 Haysville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 80 | 51.0% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 20 | 12.7% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 9 | 5.7% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 7 | 4.5% | |
| 5 | Cigarette lighter | 6 | 3.8% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 5 | 3.2% | |
| 7 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 4 | 2.5% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 4 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 3 | 1.9% | |
| 10 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 1.3% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 17 | 10.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Haysville departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 99% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $75,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $10,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $4,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $4,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $3,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $2,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $1,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $1,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Haysville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
6 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 | 2 | |
| 30-39 | 0 | |
| 40-49 | 1 | |
| 50-59 | 0 | |
| 60-69 | 2 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 117,655 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25,650 | 45.8 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14,000 | 39.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,700 | 30.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,800 | 38.8 mi | |
| 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6,400 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,400 | 34.2 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,000 | 35.4 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,500 | 39.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,945 | 40.3 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,000 | 39.3 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 3,800 | 38.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3,500 | 35.1 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Kansas cities with population within ±25% of Haysville. 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.