In 2025, fire departments serving Jemez Pueblo responded to 14 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 86% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jun dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
31 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $1 cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022 | 6 | — | |
| 2023 | 4 | -33.3% | |
| 2024 | 7 | +75.0% | |
| 2025 | 14 | +100.0% |
* Well below Jemez Pueblo'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 4 building fires Jemez Pueblo 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 | Undetermined | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 2 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 4 | Storage area, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Exterior balcony, unenclosed porch | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Wall surface: exterior | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 8 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 9 | Outside area, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 10 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 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 Jemez Pueblo mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 2 | Conducted heat from another fire | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Incendiary device | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 8 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 9 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 1 | 8.3% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Jemez Pueblo sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 329,328 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 156,593 | 18.0 mi | |
| 2000 | Debris and open burning | 47,650 | 24.5 mi | |
| 2010 | Natural | 27,100 | 34.9 mi | |
| 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 23,938 | 20.8 mi | |
| 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 16,575 | 21.4 mi | |
| 2003 | Natural | 7,165 | 49.6 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,185 | 37.5 mi | |
| 2019 | Natural | 5,162 | 48.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Natural | 4,303 | 13.0 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 4,150 | 12.0 mi | |
| 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 4,026 | 15.9 mi | |
| 2014 | Natural | 3,626 | 32.5 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six New Mexico cities with population within ±25% of Jemez Pueblo. 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.