In 2025, fire departments serving Ladoga responded to 31 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 65% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
58 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $1 cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 2 | — | |
| 2022* | 4 | — | |
| 2023 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | 11 | +10.0% | |
| 2025 | 31 | +181.8% |
* Well below Ladoga'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 Ladoga departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 5 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 | 4 | 80.0% | |
| 2 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 20.0% |
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 Ladoga mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 4 | 80.0% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 1 | 20.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Ladoga sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 9 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 460 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 | 46.5 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 49.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 | 29.9 mi | |
| 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 10 | 49.2 mi | |
| 2011 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 48.4 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 | 44.5 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47954 | 58 |
Six Indiana cities with population within ±25% of Ladoga. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Ladoga.
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.