Dome Fire Reaches 6,632 Acres in Yosemite, 40% Contained as of Oct. 3
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In 2025, fire departments serving Santa Margarita responded to 29 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Passenger vehicle fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 83% of all calls.
Aug peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
59 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $56K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022* | 2 | — | |
| 2023 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | 12 | -20.0% | |
| 2025 | 29 | +141.7% |
* Well below Santa Margarita'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 0 building fires Santa Margarita departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 6 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 | 2 | 33.3% | |
| 2 | Other | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 4 | Outside area, other | 1 | 16.7% | |
| 5 | Railroad right of way: on or near | 1 | 16.7% |
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 Santa Margarita mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 5 | 83.3% | |
| 2 | Match | 1 | 16.7% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Santa Margarita sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 570,594 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 106,668 | 10.6 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91,622 | 46.8 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49,490 | 30.1 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 48,851 | 7.7 mi | |
| 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 48,000 | 39.1 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 46,235 | 29.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29,667 | 49.0 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28,687 | 30.9 mi | |
| 1993 | Natural | 16,000 | 35.0 mi | |
| 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14,537 | 42.8 mi | |
| 2006 | Natural | 14,507 | 46.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12,742 | 46.4 mi |
Top 5 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 Santa Margarita. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Santa Margarita.
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.