In 2025, fire departments serving Tijeras responded to 30 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $2K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Outside rubbish, trash or waste fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 70% of all calls.
Jun peaks. Jul dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
57 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $11K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 1 | — | |
| 2022* | 5 | — | |
| 2023 | 11 | — | |
| 2024 | 10 | -9.1% | |
| 2025 | 30 | +200.0% |
* Well below Tijeras'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 1 building fires Tijeras departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 13 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 | 3 | 23.1% | |
| 2 | Other | 2 | 15.4% | |
| 3 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 15.4% | |
| 4 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 2 | 15.4% | |
| 5 | Duct: hvac, cable, exhaust, heating, or AC | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 7 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 8 | Exterior, exposed surface | 1 | 7.7% |
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 Tijeras mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heat source: other | 4 | 30.8% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 4 | 30.8% | |
| 3 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 3 | 23.1% | |
| 4 | Conducted heat from another fire | 2 | 15.4% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Tijeras departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $2,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Tijeras sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 103,133 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 17,912 | 19.2 mi | |
| 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 16,575 | 47.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | 13,709 | 30.0 mi | |
| 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8,000 | 26.2 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6,969 | 35.8 mi | |
| 2008 | Natural | 5,478 | 22.0 mi | |
| 2014 | Natural | 4,303 | 46.9 mi | |
| 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,000 | 30.2 mi | |
| 2011 | Natural | 3,000 | 36.1 mi | |
| 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,560 | 40.9 mi | |
| 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,500 | 29.5 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 2,213 | 26.5 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 New Mexico cities with population within ±25% of Tijeras. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Tijeras.
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.