In 2025, fire departments serving Marinette responded to 231 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 61% of all calls.
Jul peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,049 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $1.7M cumulative property loss. 3 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 197 | — | |
| 2022 | 188 | -4.6% | |
| 2023 | 209 | +11.2% | |
| 2024 | 224 | +7.2% | |
| 2025 | 231 | +3.1% |
For the 46 building fires Marinette departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 128 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 | 19 | 14.8% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 12 | 9.4% | |
| 3 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 9 | 7.0% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 9 | 7.0% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 8 | 6.2% | |
| 6 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 6 | 4.7% | |
| 7 | Outside area, other | 6 | 4.7% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 5 | 3.9% | |
| 9 | Other | 4 | 3.1% | |
| 10 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 4 | 3.1% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 46 | 35.9% |
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 Marinette mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 39 | 30.5% | |
| 2 | Hot ember or ash | 14 | 10.9% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 12 | 9.4% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 11 | 8.6% | |
| 5 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 11 | 8.6% | |
| 6 | Arcing | 10 | 7.8% | |
| 7 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 9 | 7.0% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 4 | 3.1% | |
| 9 | Heat, spark from friction | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 10 | Fireworks | 2 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 14 | 10.9% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Marinette departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 73% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $91,700 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $91,700 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $80,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $75,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Marinette sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
9 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 1 | |
| 40-49 | 3 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 3 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,801 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 275 | 7.1 mi | |
| 2004 | Debris and open burning | 215 | 18.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 133 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Natural | 110 | 41.3 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 103 | 31.4 mi | |
| 1998 | Debris and open burning | 88 | 26.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 75 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2001 | Other causes | 73 | 32.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Debris and open burning | 58 | 26.9 mi | |
| 1995 | Debris and open burning | 54 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | 53 | 23.1 mi | |
| 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 53 | 6.5 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Wisconsin cities with population within ±25% of Marinette. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Marinette.
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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.