In 2025, fire departments serving Trexlertown 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 65% of all calls.
May peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
61 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | 15 | — | |
| 2023 | 11 | -26.7% | |
| 2024 | 11 | +0.0% | |
| 2025 | 17 | +54.5% |
* Well below Trexlertown'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 3 building fires Trexlertown 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 | Outside area, other | 4 | 30.8% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 3 | 23.1% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 15.4% | |
| 4 | Other | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 5 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 6 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 7 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 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 Trexlertown mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 5 | 38.5% | |
| 2 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 2 | 15.4% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 5 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 6 | Cigarette | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 7 | Candle | 1 | 7.7% | |
| 8 | Sunlight | 1 | 7.7% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Trexlertown sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 13,598 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,265 | 43.5 mi | |
| 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,126 | 46.8 mi | |
| 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | 848 | 16.6 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 812 | 44.1 mi | |
| 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 750 | 40.8 mi | |
| 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 741 | 24.8 mi | |
| 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 674 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 647 | 47.3 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 623 | 39.8 mi | |
| 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 336 | 41.2 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 328 | 34.4 mi | |
| 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 325 | 32.7 mi |
Top 1 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
| # | ZIP | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18087 | 61 |
Six Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Trexlertown. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Trexlertown.
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.