In 2025, fire departments serving Wall responded to 14 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $563K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Building fires lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 86% of all calls.
Jan peaks. Feb dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
77 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2021. $563K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 22 | — | |
| 2022 | 14 | -36.4% | |
| 2023 | 18 | +28.6% | |
| 2024* | 9 | — | |
| 2025 | 14 | — |
* Well below Wall'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 7 building fires Wall departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 12 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 | 33.3% | |
| 2 | Undetermined | 2 | 16.7% | |
| 3 | Function area, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 4 | Storage area, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Attic: vacant, crawl space above top story, cupola | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 8 | Cargo/trunk area - all vehicles | 1 | 8.3% |
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 Wall mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 5 | 41.7% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 4 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 5 | Arcing | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 6 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 7 | Cigarette lighter | 1 | 8.3% | |
| 8 | Radiated heat from another fire | 1 | 8.3% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Wall departments in 2025. These 1 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $562,500 | Passenger vehicle fire | Major | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Wall sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 1,757 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Smoking | 394 | 45.6 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 190 | 41.4 mi | |
| 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 173 | 28.1 mi | |
| 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 152 | 41.3 mi | |
| 2013 | Debris and open burning | 106 | 45.7 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 105 | 45.9 mi | |
| 2009 | Debris and open burning | 90 | 40.1 mi | |
| 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 60 | 30.4 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 48 | 39.7 mi | |
| 2006 | Debris and open burning | 45 | 46.9 mi | |
| 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 36 | 36.7 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 | 29.1 mi |
Top 4 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 Wall. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Wall.
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.