In 2025, fire departments serving Mount Pleasant responded to 24 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $100K building blaze. 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 92% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
72 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $593K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | — | |
| 2022 | 11 | -26.7% | |
| 2023* | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | 16 | — | |
| 2025 | 24 | +50.0% |
* Well below Mount Pleasant'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 5 building fires Mount Pleasant departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 5 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 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 2 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Equipment or service area, other | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 5 | Outside area, other | 1 | 20.0% |
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 Mount Pleasant mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 2 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 1 | 20.0% | |
| 4 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 1 | 20.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Mount Pleasant departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Mount Pleasant sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 2,765 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 750 | 22.1 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 450 | 21.8 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 252 | 48.7 mi | |
| 2010 | Natural | 200 | 17.0 mi | |
| 2010 | Natural | 180 | 16.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 100 | 43.5 mi | |
| 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 | 15.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 | 29.8 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 76 | 19.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60 | 28.3 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 53 | 29.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 | 18.2 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Wisconsin cities with population within ±25% of Mount Pleasant. 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.