In 2025, fire departments serving Jones responded to 24 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $1.0M 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 58% of all calls.
Mar peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
105 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.2M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | — | |
| 2022 | 31 | +82.4% | |
| 2023* | 9 | — | |
| 2024 | 24 | — | |
| 2025 | 24 | +0.0% |
* Well below Jones'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 3 building fires Jones departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 32 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 | Outside area, other | 7 | 21.9% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 7 | 21.9% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 7 | 21.9% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 4 | 12.5% | |
| 5 | Wildland, woods | 3 | 9.4% | |
| 6 | Function area, other | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 7 | Closet | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 8 | Equipment or service area, other | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 9 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 3.1% |
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 Jones mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 17 | 53.1% | |
| 2 | Hot ember or ash | 6 | 18.8% | |
| 3 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 4 | 12.5% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 6.2% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 6 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 7 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 1 | 3.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Jones departments in 2025. These 3 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1,000,000 | Forest, woods or wildland fire | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $20,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Jones sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 141,892 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26,000 | 22.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 16,423 | 40.8 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,954 | 25.1 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,600 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,887 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,766 | 49.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,580 | 42.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,400 | 22.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,760 | 47.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,000 | 46.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,100 | 49.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,990 | 48.0 mi |
Top 3 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Jones. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Jones.
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.