In 2025, fire departments serving Tooele responded to 122 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $500K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Tooele's departments reported 122 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 216 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 53% of all calls.
May peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,080 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $2.3M cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 278 | — | |
| 2022 | 235 | -15.5% | |
| 2023 | 205 | -12.8% | |
| 2024 | 240 | +17.1% | |
| 2025* | 122 | — |
* Well below Tooele'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 Tooele departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 386 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 | Outside area, other | 91 | 23.6% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 51 | 13.2% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 37 | 9.6% | |
| 4 | Cooking area, kitchen | 33 | 8.5% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 26 | 6.7% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 21 | 5.4% | |
| 7 | Other | 12 | 3.1% | |
| 8 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 10 | 2.6% | |
| 9 | Courtyard, patio, porch, terrace | 9 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | Bathroom, checkroom, lavatory, locker room | 6 | 1.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 90 | 23.3% |
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 Tooele mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 194 | 50.3% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 31 | 8.0% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 31 | 8.0% | |
| 4 | Arcing | 25 | 6.5% | |
| 5 | Heat source: other | 21 | 5.4% | |
| 6 | Fireworks | 15 | 3.9% | |
| 7 | Cigarette lighter | 11 | 2.8% | |
| 8 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 10 | 2.6% | |
| 9 | Hot ember or ash | 6 | 1.6% | |
| 10 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 5 | 1.3% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 37 | 9.6% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Tooele departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $500,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $350,000 | Natural vegetation fire, other | Major | Investigated |
| 3 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $50,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $30,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $12,000 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $5,000 | Outside storage fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $2,500 | Fires in structures other than in a building | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Tooele sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 600,639 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Natural | 44,345 | 19.5 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 43,660 | 34.0 mi | |
| 2000 | Natural | 39,937 | 37.7 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 38,190 | 32.7 mi | |
| 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35,000 | 36.1 mi | |
| 2013 | Natural | 31,010 | 23.4 mi | |
| 1995 | Natural | 30,720 | 46.5 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 28,540 | 33.8 mi | |
| 2007 | Firearms and explosives use | 25,582 | 41.5 mi | |
| 1996 | Natural | 25,000 | 42.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 24,594 | 38.8 mi | |
| 2005 | Firearms and explosives use | 22,874 | 39.7 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 Tooele. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
2 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Tooele.
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.