In 2025, fire departments serving Sicklerville responded to 222 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $250K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 63% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Nov dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
974 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $2.7M cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 166 | — | |
| 2022 | 281 | +69.3% | |
| 2023* | 100 | — | |
| 2024 | 205 | — | |
| 2025 | 222 | +8.3% |
* Well below Sicklerville'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 15 building fires Sicklerville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 101 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 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 13 | 12.9% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 12 | 11.9% | |
| 3 | Outside area, other | 11 | 10.9% | |
| 4 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 6 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Cooking area, kitchen | 6 | 5.9% | |
| 6 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 6 | 5.9% | |
| 7 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 5 | 5.0% | |
| 8 | Wildland, woods | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 9 | Wall surface: exterior | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 10 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 32 | 31.7% |
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 Sicklerville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 69 | 68.3% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 4 | 4.0% | |
| 4 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 5 | Hot ember or ash | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 6 | Cigarette | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 7 | Radiated heat from another fire | 3 | 3.0% | |
| 8 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 9 | Arcing | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 10 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 2 | 2.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 6 | 5.9% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Sicklerville departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 96% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $250,000 | Road freight or transport vehicle fire | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $25,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Sicklerville sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 110,555 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | 19,225 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 17,050 | 36.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11,765 | 30.6 mi | |
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,638 | 28.9 mi | |
| 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5,284 | 37.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,832 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,577 | 19.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 3,477 | 40.2 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,900 | 24.2 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,730 | 39.2 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,600 | 32.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,450 | 15.6 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 08081 | 974 |
Six New Jersey cities with population within ±25% of Sicklerville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Sicklerville.
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.