In 2025, fire departments serving Uniontown responded to 81 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $40K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Incomplete 2025 data. Uniontown's departments reported 81 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 285 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.
Vehicle accident, general cleanup lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 67% of all calls.
May peaks. Oct dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
1,423 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2023. $788K cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 342 | — | |
| 2022 | 335 | -2.0% | |
| 2023 | 376 | +12.2% | |
| 2024 | 289 | -23.1% | |
| 2025* | 81 | — |
* Well below Uniontown'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 15 building fires Uniontown departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 515 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 | 140 | 27.2% | |
| 2 | Cooking area, kitchen | 69 | 13.4% | |
| 3 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 42 | 8.2% | |
| 4 | Undetermined | 38 | 7.4% | |
| 5 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 30 | 5.8% | |
| 6 | Other | 24 | 4.7% | |
| 7 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 17 | 3.3% | |
| 8 | Structural area, other | 13 | 2.5% | |
| 9 | Vehicle area, other | 12 | 2.3% | |
| 10 | Function area, other | 10 | 1.9% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 120 | 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 Uniontown mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 186 | 36.1% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 45 | 8.7% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 39 | 7.6% | |
| 4 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 27 | 5.2% | |
| 5 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 23 | 4.5% | |
| 6 | Heat from direct flame, convection currents | 22 | 4.3% | |
| 7 | Match | 21 | 4.1% | |
| 8 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 19 | 3.7% | |
| 9 | Cigarette | 18 | 3.5% | |
| 10 | Cigarette lighter | 16 | 3.1% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 99 | 19.2% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Uniontown departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $40,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $15,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $5,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $3,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $2,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $200 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $200 | Cooking fire, confined to container | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Uniontown sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
17 fire-related casualties recorded in NFIRS Module 11 across the 2021–2025 window. Age, gender, and severity are coarse-binned — no individual identification possible.
| Age | Count | |
|---|---|---|
| 0-9 | 0 | |
| 10-19 | 1 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 4 | |
| 40-49 | 4 | |
| 50-59 | 4 | |
| 60-69 | 1 | |
| 70-79 | 2 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 2,244 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 755 | 49.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Smoking | 394 | 11.5 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 173 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 90 | 35.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Debris and open burning | 76 | 49.5 mi | |
| 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 62 | 40.2 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 | 10.3 mi | |
| 2005 | Debris and open burning | 60 | 26.0 mi | |
| 1999 | Fireworks | 50 | 34.3 mi | |
| 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 46 | 46.2 mi | |
| 1992 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 47.8 mi | |
| 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 40 | 37.6 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 Pennsylvania cities with population within ±25% of Uniontown. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
3 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Uniontown.
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.