In 2025, fire departments serving Springerville responded to 22 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $50K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Forest, woods or wildland fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 73% of all calls.
May peaks. Mar dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
74 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $137K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 6 | — | |
| 2022 | 22 | — | |
| 2023* | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | 16 | — | |
| 2025 | 22 | +37.5% |
* Well below Springerville'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 Springerville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 20 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 | 8 | 40.0% | |
| 2 | Vehicle area, other | 2 | 10.0% | |
| 3 | Entrance way, lobby | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 5 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Storage room, area, tank, or bin | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 7 | Chute/container - trash, rubbish, waste | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 8 | Structural area, other | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 9 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 10 | Roof surface: exterior | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 2 | 10.0% |
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 Springerville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 9 | 45.0% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 3 | 15.0% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 10.0% | |
| 4 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 10.0% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 6 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 7 | Arcing | 1 | 5.0% | |
| 8 | Heat, spark from friction | 1 | 5.0% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Springerville departments in 2025. These 6 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $50,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $10,000 | Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $5,000 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $1,500 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $250 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Springerville sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 839,735 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | 538,049 | 39.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Natural | 45,977 | 40.6 mi | |
| 2020 | Natural | 35,371 | 42.9 mi | |
| 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 26,072 | 36.5 mi | |
| 2003 | Natural | 24,109 | 48.7 mi | |
| 1995 | Natural | 19,725 | 43.2 mi | |
| 2004 | Recreation and ceremony | 16,625 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 15,000 | 40.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Natural | 11,611 | 25.2 mi | |
| 2003 | Natural | 10,644 | 33.1 mi | |
| 2010 | Debris and open burning | 9,005 | 10.7 mi | |
| 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8,800 | 3.4 mi |
Top 4 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Arizona cities with population within ±25% of Springerville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Springerville.
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.