In 2025, fire departments serving Nashotah responded to 11 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 73% of all calls.
Oct peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
43 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $601K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 9 | — | |
| 2022* | 2 | — | |
| 2023 | 10 | — | |
| 2024 | 11 | +10.0% | |
| 2025 | 11 | +0.0% |
* Well below Nashotah'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 0 building fires Nashotah departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 9 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 5 | 55.6% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 3 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 4 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 5 | Undetermined | 1 | 11.1% |
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 Nashotah mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 3 | 33.3% | |
| 2 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 22.2% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 4 | Cigarette lighter | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 5 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 1 | 11.1% | |
| 6 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 11.1% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Nashotah sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 9,106 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,100 | 24.4 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,015 | 36.3 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 829 | 46.3 mi | |
| 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 630 | 46.4 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 612 | 38.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 508 | 47.2 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 | 47.3 mi | |
| 2014 | Debris and open burning | 364 | 33.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Natural | 360 | 28.2 mi | |
| 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 325 | 34.5 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 | 43.4 mi | |
| 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 290 | 28.7 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 | 53058 | 43 |
Six Wisconsin cities with population within ±25% of Nashotah. 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.