In 2025, fire departments serving Mona responded to 14 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 71% of all calls.
Nov peaks. May dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
57 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $505K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | 18 | — | |
| 2023 | 10 | -44.4% | |
| 2024 | 9 | -10.0% | |
| 2025 | 14 | +55.6% |
* Well below Mona'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 1 building fires Mona 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 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 20.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 3 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Equipment or service area, other | 2 | 13.3% | |
| 4 | Other | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Storage: supplies or tools; dead storage | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 8 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 9 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 10 | Vacant structural area | 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 Mona mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 5 | 33.3% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 4 | 26.7% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 13.3% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 2 | 13.3% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 1 | 6.7% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Mona sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 906,675 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 107,847 | 44.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 102,191 | 10.0 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 89,148 | 19.2 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 78,065 | 37.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 58,707 | 25.2 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 48,986 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 47,387 | 20.0 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 37,923 | 24.1 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 33,838 | 3.6 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 31,661 | 25.6 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 28,540 | 48.7 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 28,442 | 29.3 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 Utah cities with population within ±25% of Mona. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Mona.
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.