In 2025, fire departments serving Hyde Park responded to 192 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $200K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Cooking fire, confined to container lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 84% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
714 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $2.1M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 100 | — | |
| 2022 | 105 | +5.0% | |
| 2023 | 136 | +29.5% | |
| 2024 | 181 | +33.1% | |
| 2025 | 192 | +6.1% |
For the 20 building fires Hyde Park departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 82 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 | 22 | 26.8% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 9 | 11.0% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 9 | 11.0% | |
| 4 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 4 | 4.9% | |
| 5 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 3 | 3.7% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 3 | 3.7% | |
| 7 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 3 | 3.7% | |
| 8 | Outside area, other | 3 | 3.7% | |
| 9 | Other | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 10 | Exterior stairway, ramp, or fire escape | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 22 | 26.8% |
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 Hyde Park mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 33 | 40.2% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 15 | 18.3% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 9 | 11.0% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 5 | 6.1% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 3 | 3.7% | |
| 6 | Heat source: other | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 7 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 8 | Cigarette | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 9 | Radiated heat from another fire | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 10 | Conducted heat from another fire | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 7 | 8.5% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Hyde Park departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 97% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $10,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $10,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $10,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $9,999 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Hyde Park 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 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 17,987 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Smoking | 2,855 | 17.0 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2,759 | 30.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,028 | 24.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,300 | 42.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 998 | 17.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 866 | 19.3 mi | |
| 1999 | Smoking | 700 | 30.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 641 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | 552 | 41.4 mi | |
| 2001 | Smoking | 550 | 19.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 485 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 481 | 36.7 mi |
Top 5 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six New York cities with population within ±25% of Hyde Park. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Hyde Park.
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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.