In 2025, fire departments serving Springville responded to 17 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 71% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
67 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $25K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 6 | — | |
| 2022* | 7 | — | |
| 2023 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | 25 | +108.3% | |
| 2025 | 17 | -32.0% |
* Well below Springville'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 7 building fires Springville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 4 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 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 2 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 1 | 25.0% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 1 | 25.0% |
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 Springville mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 3 | 75.0% | |
| 2 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 25.0% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Springville sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 686,626 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Natural | 102,191 | 24.8 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 89,148 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 68,547 | 42.5 mi | |
| 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 58,707 | 49.2 mi | |
| 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 47,387 | 38.6 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 37,923 | 47.2 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 33,838 | 28.8 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 31,661 | 18.7 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25,456 | 31.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 22,045 | 49.3 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 18,750 | 48.6 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 18,620 | 21.2 mi |
Top 3 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six Utah cities with population within ±25% of Springville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Springville.
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.