In 2025, fire departments serving South Heidelberg responded to 16 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Power line down lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 100% of all calls.
Dec peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
18 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 0 | — | |
| 2022* | 2 | — | |
| 2023* | 0 | — | |
| 2024* | 0 | — | |
| 2025 | 16 | — |
* Well below South Heidelberg'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 South Heidelberg departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. South Heidelberg sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 5,547 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 935 | 30.9 mi | |
| 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 848 | 38.9 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 741 | 19.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 308 | 46.6 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 282 | 37.0 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 263 | 36.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2002 | Natural | 250 | 45.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 193 | 31.8 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 184 | 36.5 mi | |
| 2002 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 168 | 36.2 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 156 | 47.2 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 Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of South Heidelberg. 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.