In 2025, fire departments serving Stroud responded to 56 fire and hazmat incidents . Here's the full picture.
Grass fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 79% of all calls.
Mar peaks. Nov dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
436 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $95K cumulative property loss. 4 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 46 | — | |
| 2022 | 150 | — | |
| 2023 | 89 | -40.7% | |
| 2024 | 95 | +6.7% | |
| 2025 | 56 | -41.1% |
* Well below Stroud'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 8 building fires Stroud departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 211 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 | 157 | 74.4% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 10 | 4.7% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 7 | 3.3% | |
| 4 | Vehicle area, other | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 5 | Laundry area, wash house (laundry) | 4 | 1.9% | |
| 6 | Storage area, other | 4 | 1.9% | |
| 7 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 4 | 1.9% | |
| 8 | Function area, other | 3 | 1.4% | |
| 9 | Equipment or service area, other | 3 | 1.4% | |
| 10 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 0.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 12 | 5.7% |
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 Stroud mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 164 | 77.7% | |
| 2 | Heat, spark from friction | 8 | 3.8% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 6 | 2.8% | |
| 4 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 5 | Cigarette | 5 | 2.4% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 4 | 1.9% | |
| 7 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 3 | 1.4% | |
| 8 | Arcing | 3 | 1.4% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 0.9% | |
| 10 | Heat from undetermined smoking material | 2 | 0.9% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 9 | 4.3% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Stroud sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 288,936 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Smoking | 58,501 | 17.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Debris and open burning | 21,860 | 33.8 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17,299 | 46.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 16,423 | 14.1 mi | |
| 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14,000 | 31.2 mi | |
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10,816 | 41.7 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 10,216 | 44.6 mi | |
| 2017 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,636 | 43.3 mi | |
| 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9,600 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 9,429 | 32.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 9,080 | 32.4 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8,954 | 49.5 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 Oklahoma cities with population within ±25% of Stroud. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Stroud.
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.