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In 2025, fire departments serving Santa Maria responded to 963 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $800K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Aircraft standby lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 52% of all calls.
Dec peaks. Sep dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
4,583 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $14.0M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 938 | — | |
| 2022 | 891 | -5.0% | |
| 2023 | 855 | -4.0% | |
| 2024 | 936 | +9.5% | |
| 2025 | 963 | +2.9% |
For the 42 building fires Santa Maria departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 1,653 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 | 656 | 39.7% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 161 | 9.7% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 100 | 6.0% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 90 | 5.4% | |
| 5 | Other | 70 | 4.2% | |
| 6 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 69 | 4.2% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 62 | 3.8% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 59 | 3.6% | |
| 9 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 53 | 3.2% | |
| 10 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 31 | 1.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 302 | 18.3% |
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 Maria mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 1,026 | 62.1% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 141 | 8.5% | |
| 3 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 81 | 4.9% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 70 | 4.2% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 53 | 3.2% | |
| 6 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 46 | 2.8% | |
| 7 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 38 | 2.3% | |
| 8 | Hot ember or ash | 35 | 2.1% | |
| 9 | Cigarette lighter | 32 | 1.9% | |
| 10 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 19 | 1.1% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 112 | 6.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Santa Maria departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 37% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $800,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $350,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $250,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Major | Investigated |
| 4 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $150,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $150,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $150,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $150,000 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Santa Maria sits above 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 | 2 | |
| 10-19 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 0 | |
| 30-39 | 3 | |
| 40-49 | 1 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 1 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 774,368 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 240,207 | 22.7 mi | |
| 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 106,668 | 33.6 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 91,622 | 26.4 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 49,490 | 21.2 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 48,851 | 38.3 mi | |
| 1993 | Smoking | 43,201 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 32,606 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28,687 | 10.1 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18,431 | 37.6 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14,988 | 42.8 mi | |
| 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 14,537 | 27.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12,742 | 15.9 mi |
Top 9 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 Maria. 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.