In 2025, fire departments serving Hutsonville responded to 16 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $150K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 81% of all calls.
May peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
56 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $379K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 2 | — | |
| 2022* | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | 20 | +66.7% | |
| 2025 | 16 | -20.0% |
* Well below Hutsonville'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 5 building fires Hutsonville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 26 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 | 9 | 34.6% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 5 | 19.2% | |
| 3 | Vehicle area, other | 3 | 11.5% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 6 | Undetermined | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 7 | Function area, other | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 8 | Equipment or service area, other | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 9 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 1 | 3.8% |
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 Hutsonville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 7 | 26.9% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 6 | 23.1% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 3 | 11.5% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 5 | Heat, spark from friction | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 7 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 8 | Heat source: other | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 9 | Cigarette | 1 | 3.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Hutsonville departments in 2025. These 7 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $10,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $5,000 | Mobile property (vehicle) fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $3,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $1,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hutsonville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 16 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 499 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 | 27.0 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 27.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 42.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 20.7 mi | |
| 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 20 | 46.6 mi | |
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 20 | 25.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 | 27.4 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 | 26.3 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 | 49.3 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 | 49.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 48.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 | 40.1 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 | 62433 | 56 |
Six Illinois cities with population within ±25% of Hutsonville. 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.