In 2025, fire departments serving LeRoy responded to 17 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 71% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
95 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $50K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 17 | — | |
| 2022 | 27 | +58.8% | |
| 2023 | 23 | -14.8% | |
| 2024* | 11 | — | |
| 2025 | 17 | — |
* Well below LeRoy'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 0 building fires LeRoy departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 62 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 46 | 74.2% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 6 | 9.7% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 3 | 4.8% | |
| 4 | Wall surface: exterior | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 6 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 1.6% | |
| 7 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 1 | 1.6% | |
| 8 | Fuel tank, fuel line | 1 | 1.6% |
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 LeRoy mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot ember or ash | 14 | 22.6% | |
| 2 | Match | 7 | 11.3% | |
| 3 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 6 | 9.7% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 5 | 8.1% | |
| 5 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 5 | 8.1% | |
| 6 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 5 | 8.1% | |
| 7 | Cigarette lighter | 4 | 6.5% | |
| 8 | Radiated heat from another fire | 4 | 6.5% | |
| 9 | Undetermined | 3 | 4.8% | |
| 10 | Cigarette | 2 | 3.2% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 7 | 11.3% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. LeRoy sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 115,675 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23,000 | 28.7 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12,000 | 47.7 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12,000 | 33.9 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,000 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,000 | 42.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,500 | 33.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,000 | 36.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,500 | 30.2 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,500 | 43.9 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,500 | 31.8 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,200 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,200 | 36.9 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 | 66857 | 95 |
Six Kansas cities with population within ±25% of LeRoy. 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.