In 2025, fire departments serving Lower Nazareth responded to 12 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 67% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
42 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | 12 | +20.0% | |
| 2024* | 5 | — | |
| 2025 | 12 | — |
* Well below Lower Nazareth'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 Lower Nazareth departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Lower Nazareth sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 23,174 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 7,949 | 35.9 mi | |
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,265 | 31.2 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,126 | 44.3 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 995 | 38.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 848 | 19.9 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 812 | 30.9 mi | |
| 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 750 | 23.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 741 | 41.1 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 674 | 34.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 647 | 32.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 623 | 22.7 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 615 | 38.6 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 Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Lower Nazareth. 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.