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In 2025, fire departments serving Pine Hills responded to 11 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $30K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Unauthorized burning lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 73% of all calls.
May peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
32 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $41K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 3 | — | |
| 2022* | 3 | — | |
| 2023 | 4 | — | |
| 2024 | 11 | +175.0% | |
| 2025 | 11 | +0.0% |
* Well below Pine Hills'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 Pine Hills departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 14 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 | Outside area, other | 3 | 21.4% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 2 | 14.3% | |
| 3 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 2 | 14.3% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 2 | 14.3% | |
| 5 | Function area, other | 1 | 7.1% | |
| 6 | Closet | 1 | 7.1% | |
| 7 | Service facilities, other | 1 | 7.1% | |
| 8 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 1 | 7.1% | |
| 9 | Exterior, exposed surface | 1 | 7.1% |
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 Pine Hills mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 10 | 71.4% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 2 | 14.3% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 7.1% | |
| 4 | Heat, spark from friction | 1 | 7.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Pine Hills departments in 2025. These 2 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $1,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Pine Hills sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 713,268 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Natural | 142,386 | 48.5 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 124,898 | 48.1 mi | |
| 2015 | Natural | 68,040 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 66,113 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Natural | 34,006 | 36.4 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 31,419 | 46.4 mi | |
| 2015 | Natural | 27,150 | 38.8 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 25,398 | 37.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 25,199 | 41.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 24,776 | 44.7 mi | |
| 2015 | Natural | 18,178 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 15,118 | 33.0 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 | 95501 | 32 |
Six California cities with population within ±25% of Pine Hills. 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.