In 2025, fire departments serving Ogden responded to 780 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $3.0M building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Aircraft standby lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 50% of all calls.
Jul peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
3,840 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $29.8M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 946 | — | |
| 2022 | 755 | -20.2% | |
| 2023 | 620 | -17.9% | |
| 2024 | 739 | +19.2% | |
| 2025 | 780 | +5.5% |
For the 73 building fires Ogden departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 623 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 | Undetermined | 146 | 23.4% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 74 | 11.9% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 59 | 9.5% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 47 | 7.5% | |
| 5 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 24 | 3.9% | |
| 6 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 17 | 2.7% | |
| 7 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 16 | 2.6% | |
| 8 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 14 | 2.2% | |
| 9 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 13 | 2.1% | |
| 10 | Function area, other | 12 | 1.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 201 | 32.3% |
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 Ogden mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 267 | 42.9% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 54 | 8.7% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 49 | 7.9% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 46 | 7.4% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 28 | 4.5% | |
| 6 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 27 | 4.3% | |
| 7 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 27 | 4.3% | |
| 8 | Cigarette lighter | 17 | 2.7% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 14 | 2.2% | |
| 10 | Candle | 11 | 1.8% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 83 | 13.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Ogden departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 83% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $3,000,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $2,000,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $2,000,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 4 | $1,500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 5 | $1,000,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 6 | $600,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 7 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 8 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Ogden 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 | 2 | |
| 30-39 | 2 | |
| 40-49 | 1 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 238,011 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Natural | 40,000 | 34.9 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 24,594 | 49.8 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 16,116 | 42.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Natural | 15,330 | 23.6 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 15,046 | 48.5 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 14,293 | 49.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Natural | 11,200 | 49.3 mi | |
| 1994 | Natural | 10,500 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2018 | Firearms and explosives use | 9,880 | 48.1 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9,000 | 47.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Firearms and explosives use | 6,848 | 41.8 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,403 | 28.2 mi |
Top 9 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 Ogden. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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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.