In 2025, fire departments serving Hazen responded to 18 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 50% of all calls.
Mar peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
128 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.2M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32 | — | |
| 2022 | 44 | +37.5% | |
| 2023* | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | 22 | — | |
| 2025 | 18 | -18.2% |
* Well below Hazen'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 Hazen departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 100 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 | 35 | 35.0% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 11 | 11.0% | |
| 3 | Outside area, other | 7 | 7.0% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 7 | 7.0% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 7 | 7.0% | |
| 6 | Other | 6 | 6.0% | |
| 7 | Storage area, other | 6 | 6.0% | |
| 8 | Cooking area, kitchen | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 9 | Equipment or service area, other | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 10 | Vehicle area, other | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 9 | 9.0% |
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 Hazen mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 68 | 68.0% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 13 | 13.0% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 10 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 6 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 7 | Lightning | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 8 | Conducted heat from another fire | 1 | 1.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Hazen departments in 2025. These 7 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $20,000 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $20,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $2,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $1,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $100 | Grass fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $100 | Grass fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hazen sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 8,381 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,500 | 41.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 776 | 49.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 636 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 441 | 47.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Debris and open burning | 367 | 29.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 336 | 46.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 319 | 30.0 mi | |
| 2008 | Debris and open burning | 282 | 48.7 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 270 | 24.7 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 255 | 47.8 mi | |
| 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 | 35.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 240 | 45.1 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 | 72064 | 128 |
Six Arkansas cities with population within ±25% of Hazen. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Hazen.
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.