In 2025, fire departments serving Spiro responded to 21 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 76% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
134 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $644K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 2 | — | |
| 2022 | 20 | — | |
| 2023 | 58 | +190.0% | |
| 2024 | 33 | -43.1% | |
| 2025 | 21 | -36.4% |
* Well below Spiro'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 4 building fires Spiro departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 103 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 | 65 | 63.1% | |
| 2 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 15 | 14.6% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 4 | 3.9% | |
| 4 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 3 | 2.9% | |
| 5 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 6 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 7 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 8 | Multiple areas | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 9 | Other | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 10 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 6 | 5.8% |
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 Spiro mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 82 | 79.6% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 4 | 3.9% | |
| 3 | Hot ember or ash | 3 | 2.9% | |
| 4 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 3 | 2.9% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 6 | Fireworks | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 7 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 2 | 1.9% | |
| 8 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 9 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 10 | Molten, hot material | 1 | 1.0% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 2 | 1.9% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Spiro sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 114,591 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14,000 | 45.8 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10,880 | 46.3 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 10,436 | 44.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,540 | 35.3 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 5,240 | 41.0 mi | |
| 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,370 | 28.9 mi | |
| 2003 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,080 | 49.1 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,050 | 42.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 4,000 | 44.8 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 3,960 | 41.8 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,920 | 45.4 mi | |
| 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,900 | 45.6 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 | 74959 | 134 |
Six Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Spiro. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Spiro.
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.