In 2025, fire departments serving Reardan responded to 15 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $300K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Forest, woods or wildland fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 73% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
68 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $451K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | — | |
| 2022 | 20 | -13.0% | |
| 2023* | 3 | — | |
| 2024* | 7 | — | |
| 2025 | 15 | — |
* Well below Reardan'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 3 building fires Reardan departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 26 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 | 5 | 19.2% | |
| 2 | Wildland, woods | 4 | 15.4% | |
| 3 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 7.7% | |
| 6 | Office | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 7 | Storage area, other | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 8 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 9 | Structural area, other | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 10 | Substructure area or space, crawl space | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 6 | 23.1% |
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 Reardan mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 16 | 61.5% | |
| 2 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 3 | 11.5% | |
| 3 | Heat source: other | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 7 | Cigarette | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 8 | Cigarette lighter | 1 | 3.8% | |
| 9 | Lightning | 1 | 3.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Reardan departments in 2025. These 2 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $300,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Reardan sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 474,013 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 127,430 | 18.0 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 64,007 | 27.1 mi | |
| 2019 | Natural | 44,446 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Firearms and explosives use | 26,805 | 48.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 23,324 | 35.4 mi | |
| 1996 | Debris and open burning | 20,080 | 43.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19,090 | 25.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19,005 | 48.1 mi | |
| 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 18,120 | 34.2 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 18,117 | 15.9 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15,269 | 34.1 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,797 | 39.4 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 Washington cities with population within ±25% of Reardan. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Reardan.
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.