In 2025, fire departments serving Monroe responded to 20 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 100% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Aug dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
44 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022* | 0 | — | |
| 2023* | 0 | — | |
| 2024 | 23 | — | |
| 2025 | 20 | -13.0% |
* Well below Monroe'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 15 building fires Monroe departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Monroe sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 2,045 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 935 | 29.9 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 26.0 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 | 32.1 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 74 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 72 | 26.4 mi | |
| 2008 | Debris and open burning | 70 | 39.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 59 | 33.6 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 55 | 13.3 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 54 | 48.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 48 | 49.2 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 36.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 43 | 48.5 mi |
Top 7 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 Monroe. 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.