In 2025, fire departments serving Pandora responded to 10 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 60% of all calls.
Sep peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
56 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $1K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | 12 | — | |
| 2023 | 11 | -8.3% | |
| 2024 | 17 | +54.5% | |
| 2025 | 10 | -41.2% |
* Well below Pandora'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 1 building fires Pandora departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 8 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 | Other | 2 | 25.0% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 5 | Wildland, woods | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 6 | Undetermined | 1 | 12.5% |
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 Pandora mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot ember or ash | 5 | 62.5% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 12.5% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 1 | 12.5% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Pandora sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 7 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 453 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 332 | 41.5 mi | |
| 2019 | Debris and open burning | 58 | 21.2 mi | |
| 2017 | Debris and open burning | 22 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 11 | 41.7 mi | |
| 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 18.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 40.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 10 | 45.4 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 | 45877 | 56 |
Six Ohio cities with population within ±25% of Pandora. 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.