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In 2025, fire departments serving Hemet responded to 461 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $300K 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 46% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Sep dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
3,115 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $16.4M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 424 | — | |
| 2022 | 735 | +73.3% | |
| 2023 | 723 | -1.6% | |
| 2024 | 772 | +6.8% | |
| 2025 | 461 | -40.3% |
For the 32 building fires Hemet departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 808 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 | 110 | 13.6% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 97 | 12.0% | |
| 3 | Outside area, other | 87 | 10.8% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 58 | 7.2% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 47 | 5.8% | |
| 6 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 43 | 5.3% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 38 | 4.7% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 38 | 4.7% | |
| 9 | Vehicle area, other | 27 | 3.3% | |
| 10 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 27 | 3.3% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 236 | 29.2% |
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 Hemet mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 327 | 40.5% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 72 | 8.9% | |
| 3 | Cigarette lighter | 72 | 8.9% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 53 | 6.6% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 44 | 5.4% | |
| 6 | Heat source: other | 35 | 4.3% | |
| 7 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 27 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 25 | 3.1% | |
| 9 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 21 | 2.6% | |
| 10 | Match | 18 | 2.2% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 114 | 14.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Hemet departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 65% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $300,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $300,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $250,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 4 | $220,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $135,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hemet sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
24 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 | 3 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 2 | |
| 30-39 | 4 | |
| 40-49 | 4 | |
| 50-59 | 7 | |
| 60-69 | 3 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,080,618 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 197,990 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 91,281 | 35.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 65,000 | 37.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 61,700 | 39.1 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 59,788 | 40.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 56,427 | 33.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 51,000 | 29.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Other causes | 49,390 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 40,200 | 17.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36,274 | 45.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 33,424 | 17.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30,305 | 43.7 mi |
Top 10 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six California cities with population within ±25% of Hemet. 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.