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In 2025, fire departments serving Mojave responded to 290 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $300K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Aircraft standby lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 71% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,199 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $7.4M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 310 | — | |
| 2022* | 142 | — | |
| 2023 | 224 | — | |
| 2024 | 233 | +4.0% | |
| 2025 | 290 | +24.5% |
* Well below Mojave'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 11 building fires Mojave departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 206 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 | 60 | 29.1% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 28 | 13.6% | |
| 3 | Vehicle area, other | 17 | 8.3% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 12 | 5.8% | |
| 5 | Other | 7 | 3.4% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 7 | 3.4% | |
| 7 | Exterior, exposed surface | 7 | 3.4% | |
| 8 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 9 | Cooking area, kitchen | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 10 | Storage area, other | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 53 | 25.7% |
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 Mojave mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 116 | 56.3% | |
| 2 | Arcing | 26 | 12.6% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 12 | 5.8% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 12 | 5.8% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 10 | 4.9% | |
| 6 | Heat, spark from friction | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 7 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 4 | 1.9% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 1.5% | |
| 9 | Radiated heat from another fire | 3 | 1.5% | |
| 10 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 1.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 13 | 6.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Mojave departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 86% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $300,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $300,000 | Accident, potential accident, other | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $125,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $100,000 | Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $100,000 | Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $70,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Mojave 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 | 1 | |
| 20-29 | 4 | |
| 30-39 | 1 | |
| 40-49 | 1 | |
| 50-59 | 2 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 894,618 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Natural | 174,178 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 162,702 | 42.2 mi | |
| 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 63,720 | 48.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48,007 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2007 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 45,300 | 42.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 41,432 | 42.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 38,356 | 34.8 mi | |
| 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 37,026 | 30.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 31,089 | 27.5 mi | |
| 2013 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 30,274 | 32.8 mi | |
| 2011 | Natural | 25,577 | 7.0 mi | |
| 2011 | Natural | 25,213 | 36.6 mi |
Top 10 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six California cities with population within ±25% of Mojave. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Mojave.
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.