In 2025, fire departments serving Roseville responded to 438 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $500K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 66% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
2,334 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $5.1M cumulative property loss. 5 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 486 | — | |
| 2022 | 441 | -9.3% | |
| 2023 | 430 | -2.5% | |
| 2024 | 539 | +25.3% | |
| 2025 | 438 | -18.7% |
For the 83 building fires Roseville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 603 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 97 | 16.1% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 86 | 14.3% | |
| 3 | Undetermined | 69 | 11.4% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 56 | 9.3% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 25 | 4.1% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 23 | 3.8% | |
| 7 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 20 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 19 | 3.2% | |
| 9 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 18 | 3.0% | |
| 10 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 15 | 2.5% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 175 | 29.0% |
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 Roseville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 342 | 56.7% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 46 | 7.6% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 41 | 6.8% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 28 | 4.6% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 18 | 3.0% | |
| 6 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 16 | 2.7% | |
| 7 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 16 | 2.7% | |
| 8 | Heat source: other | 15 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Cigarette | 14 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 10 | 1.7% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 57 | 9.5% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Roseville departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 62% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $230,600 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $200,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $200,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $183,700 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Roseville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
19 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 | 1 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 3 | |
| 40-49 | 2 | |
| 50-59 | 0 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 3 | |
| 80+ | 4 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,054 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Debris and open burning | 300 | 37.4 mi | |
| 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | 80 | 48.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 77 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2012 | Smoking | 64 | 44.5 mi | |
| 2003 | Debris and open burning | 53 | 32.3 mi | |
| 2020 | Debris and open burning | 50 | 38.3 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49 | 11.7 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 42 | 34.8 mi | |
| 1994 | Recreation and ceremony | 38 | 39.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 33 | 38.8 mi | |
| 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 30 | 33.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 30 | 32.6 mi |
Top 7 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Michigan cities with population within ±25% of Roseville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Roseville.
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.