In 2025, fire departments serving Hooversville responded to 16 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 69% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
86 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | — | |
| 2022 | 12 | -58.6% | |
| 2023* | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | 21 | — | |
| 2025 | 16 | -23.8% |
* Well below Hooversville'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 2 building fires Hooversville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 12 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 | 16.7% | |
| 2 | Other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 3 | Egress/exit, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 4 | Storage room, area, tank, or bin | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Storage: supplies or tools; dead storage | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Wall assembly | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 8 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 9 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 10 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 1 | 8.3% |
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 Hooversville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 5 | 41.7% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 3 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 8.3% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hooversville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 4,914 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 888 | 24.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 755 | 22.3 mi | |
| 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 480 | 23.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 345 | 38.2 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 300 | 40.0 mi | |
| 2009 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 297 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 295 | 31.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 190 | 17.8 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 173 | 22.5 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 160 | 42.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 | 46.9 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 105 | 24.7 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 | 15936 | 86 |
Six Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Hooversville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Hooversville.
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.