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In 2025, fire departments serving Red Bluff responded to 44 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $30K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Red Bluff's departments reported 44 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 212 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Unauthorized burning lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 84% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,062 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $1.8M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 274 | — | |
| 2022 | 327 | +19.3% | |
| 2023 | 187 | -42.8% | |
| 2024 | 230 | +23.0% | |
| 2025* | 44 | — |
* Well below Red Bluff'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 Red Bluff departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 389 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 | 88 | 22.6% | |
| 2 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 41 | 10.5% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 36 | 9.3% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 26 | 6.7% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 24 | 6.2% | |
| 6 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 23 | 5.9% | |
| 7 | Wildland, woods | 20 | 5.1% | |
| 8 | Other | 18 | 4.6% | |
| 9 | Railroad right of way: on or near | 12 | 3.1% | |
| 10 | Wall surface: exterior | 10 | 2.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 91 | 23.4% |
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 Red Bluff mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 156 | 40.1% | |
| 2 | Cigarette lighter | 28 | 7.2% | |
| 3 | Cigarette | 25 | 6.4% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 23 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 19 | 4.9% | |
| 6 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 18 | 4.6% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 17 | 4.4% | |
| 8 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 13 | 3.3% | |
| 9 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 11 | 2.8% | |
| 10 | Flame/torch used for lighting | 9 | 2.3% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 70 | 18.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Red Bluff departments in 2025. These 5 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $30,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $2,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $2,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $1,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Red Bluff sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
8 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 | 0 | |
| 40-49 | 1 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 1 | |
| 80+ | 2 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,999,913 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Natural | 589,368 | 36.3 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 328,363 | 44.0 mi | |
| 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | 229,651 | 40.3 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 153,336 | 49.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 64,000 | 42.9 mi | |
| 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 60,390 | 30.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 56,338 | 30.7 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 51,576 | 26.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 47,647 | 49.7 mi | |
| 1994 | Natural | 44,683 | 29.8 mi | |
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40,580 | 49.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 32,903 | 33.0 mi |
Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six California cities with population within ±25% of Red Bluff. 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.