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In 2025, fire departments serving Kings Beach responded to 42 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Unauthorized burning lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 62% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
182 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.2M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 54 | — | |
| 2022 | 71 | +31.5% | |
| 2023* | 10 | — | |
| 2024* | 5 | — | |
| 2025 | 42 | — |
* Well below Kings Beach'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 1 building fires Kings Beach departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 11 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 | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 3 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 5 | Exterior balcony, unenclosed porch | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 6 | Wall surface: exterior | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 7 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 9 | Undetermined | 1 | 9.1% |
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 Kings Beach mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat source: other | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 2 | 18.2% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 9.1% | |
| 7 | Cigarette | 1 | 9.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Kings Beach departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Kings Beach sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 567,025 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 97,717 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2018 | Arson/incendiarism | 51,386 | 47.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 47,029 | 31.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 46,800 | 25.9 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 41,545 | 29.7 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27,440 | 34.6 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24,580 | 39.8 mi | |
| 2013 | Natural | 24,140 | 35.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18,380 | 34.5 mi | |
| 2015 | Natural | 17,790 | 47.0 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16,761 | 29.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15,584 | 25.1 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 California cities with population within ±25% of Kings Beach. 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.