In 2025, fire departments serving Morganville responded to 136 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $250 building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 65% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Nov dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
203 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $500 cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022* | 1 | — | |
| 2023* | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | 56 | — | |
| 2025 | 136 | +142.9% |
* Well below Morganville'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 7 building fires Morganville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 32 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 | Vehicle area, other | 5 | 15.6% | |
| 2 | Wildland, woods | 5 | 15.6% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 4 | 12.5% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 4 | 12.5% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 9.4% | |
| 6 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 3 | 9.4% | |
| 7 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 2 | 6.2% | |
| 8 | Other | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 9 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 10 | Office | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 3 | 9.4% |
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 Morganville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 21 | 65.6% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 2 | 6.2% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 6.2% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 5 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 7 | Heat, spark from friction | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 8 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 3.1% | |
| 10 | Cigarette | 1 | 3.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Morganville departments in 2025. These 2 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $250 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $250 | Cooking fire, confined to container | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Morganville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
7 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 | 3 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 2 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 96,427 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 19,225 | 32.2 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 17,050 | 46.3 mi | |
| 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11,765 | 47.9 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,638 | 43.2 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,284 | 37.0 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,832 | 37.8 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,900 | 38.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,730 | 28.6 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,600 | 27.4 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,300 | 29.0 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,240 | 28.8 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,600 | 45.7 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 | 07751 | 203 |
Six New Jersey cities with population within ±25% of Morganville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Morganville.
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.