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In 2025, fire departments serving La Mesa responded to 54 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $200K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. La Mesa's departments reported 54 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 123 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 59% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Jul dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
613 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $4.1M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 223 | — | |
| 2022 | 217 | -2.7% | |
| 2023 | 78 | -64.1% | |
| 2024* | 41 | — | |
| 2025* | 54 | — |
* Well below La Mesa'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 9 building fires La Mesa departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 182 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 | 55 | 30.2% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 24 | 13.2% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 20 | 11.0% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 17 | 9.3% | |
| 5 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 15 | 8.2% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 10 | 5.5% | |
| 7 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 8 | 4.4% | |
| 8 | Other | 4 | 2.2% | |
| 9 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 4 | 2.2% | |
| 10 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 3 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 22 | 12.1% |
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 La Mesa mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 134 | 73.6% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 12 | 6.6% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 7 | 3.8% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 6 | 3.3% | |
| 5 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 3 | 1.6% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 1.6% | |
| 7 | Candle | 3 | 1.6% | |
| 8 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 3 | 1.6% | |
| 9 | Cigarette | 2 | 1.1% | |
| 10 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 2 | 1.1% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 7 | 3.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by La Mesa departments in 2025. These 7 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $200,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $35,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $4,500 | Mobile property (vehicle) fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $500 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $500 | Outside storage fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. La Mesa sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 995,223 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | 280,059 | 22.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 197,990 | 27.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 90,440 | 28.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 61,690 | 34.6 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 56,427 | 33.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Other causes | 49,390 | 36.1 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47,921 | 20.4 mi | |
| 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20,768 | 26.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Natural | 19,575 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 16,677 | 20.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16,390 | 18.9 mi | |
| 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 14,720 | 13.5 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 California cities with population within ±25% of La Mesa. 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.