In 2025, fire departments serving Marshallville responded to 20 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $207K 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 75% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
71 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $307K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 14 | — | |
| 2022* | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | 19 | +90.0% | |
| 2025 | 20 | +5.3% |
* Well below Marshallville'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 8 building fires Marshallville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 15 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 | Outside area, other | 4 | 26.7% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 4 | 26.7% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 2 | 13.3% | |
| 4 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 5 | Conduit, pipe, utility, or ventilation shaft | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 7 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 8 | Multiple areas | 1 | 6.7% |
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 Marshallville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot ember or ash | 6 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Match | 3 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 3 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 5 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Conducted heat from another fire | 1 | 6.7% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Marshallville departments in 2025. These 2 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $206,670 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Marshallville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,214 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 175 | 35.5 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 171 | 33.6 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 150 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 46.6 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 78 | 46.6 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 60 | 33.8 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 35 | 47.3 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 | 42.6 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 35.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 30 | 21.8 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 | 44645 | 71 |
Six Ohio cities with population within ±25% of Marshallville. 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.