In 2025, fire departments serving Pink responded to 62 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $180K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 65% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Jun dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
252 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $522K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 8 | — | |
| 2022 | 72 | — | |
| 2023 | 72 | +0.0% | |
| 2024 | 38 | -47.2% | |
| 2025 | 62 | +63.2% |
* Well below Pink'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 4 building fires Pink departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 118 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 | 26 | 22.0% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 24 | 20.3% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 18 | 15.3% | |
| 4 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 11 | 9.3% | |
| 5 | Wildland, woods | 6 | 5.1% | |
| 6 | Other | 5 | 4.2% | |
| 7 | Structural area, other | 5 | 4.2% | |
| 8 | Vehicle area, other | 5 | 4.2% | |
| 9 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 10 | Railroad right of way: on or near | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 12 | 10.2% |
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 Pink mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 59 | 50.0% | |
| 2 | Match | 14 | 11.9% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 9 | 7.6% | |
| 4 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 7 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 4 | 3.4% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 4 | 3.4% | |
| 7 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 4 | 3.4% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Lightning | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 10 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 3 | 2.5% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 8 | 6.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Pink departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 99% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $180,000 | Forest, woods or wildland fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $90,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $50,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $25,000 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $5,000 | Forest, woods or wildland fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $5,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Pink sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 156,780 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 | 26,000 | 33.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 16,423 | 38.4 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9,600 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 9,429 | 42.0 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,954 | 5.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7,000 | 38.9 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,766 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,400 | 29.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,122 | 30.6 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,760 | 29.3 mi | |
| 2011 | Natural | 4,800 | 40.3 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,100 | 43.2 mi |
Top 6 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Pink. 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.