In 2025, fire departments serving Revere responded to 519 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $2.0M building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Cooking fire, confined to container lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 70% of all calls.
Apr peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
2,666 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $24.8M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 579 | — | |
| 2022 | 586 | +1.2% | |
| 2023 | 482 | -17.7% | |
| 2024 | 500 | +3.7% | |
| 2025 | 519 | +3.8% |
For the 37 building fires Revere departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 424 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 | 66 | 15.6% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 56 | 13.2% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 46 | 10.8% | |
| 4 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 40 | 9.4% | |
| 5 | Other | 36 | 8.5% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 18 | 4.2% | |
| 7 | Vehicle area, other | 16 | 3.8% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 16 | 3.8% | |
| 9 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 13 | 3.1% | |
| 10 | Wall surface: exterior | 11 | 2.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 106 | 25.0% |
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 Revere mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 178 | 42.0% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 51 | 12.0% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 34 | 8.0% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 30 | 7.1% | |
| 5 | Cigarette | 30 | 7.1% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 18 | 4.2% | |
| 7 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 10 | 2.4% | |
| 8 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 8 | 1.9% | |
| 9 | Radiated heat from another fire | 8 | 1.9% | |
| 10 | Match | 7 | 1.7% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 50 | 11.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Revere departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 80% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2,000,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $750,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 4 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 5 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 6 | $300,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 7 | $250,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 8 | $250,000 | Gasoline or other flammable liquid spill | Major | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Revere sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
70 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 | 5 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 25 | |
| 40-49 | 17 | |
| 50-59 | 17 | |
| 60-69 | 4 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 1 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 3,655 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 | 800 | 32.9 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 700 | 32.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 | 13.1 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 300 | 32.9 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 256 | 32.9 mi | |
| 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 250 | 33.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 186 | 13.9 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 172 | 32.8 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 | 6.4 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 79 | 33.0 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 58 | 33.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 55 | 37.4 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 Massachusetts cities with population within ±25% of Revere. 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.