In 2025, fire departments serving Warrington responded to 100 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $1 building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 50% of all calls.
Feb peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
365 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $250K cumulative property loss. 1 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021* | 19 | — | |
| 2022* | 19 | — | |
| 2023 | 94 | — | |
| 2024 | 133 | +41.5% | |
| 2025 | 100 | -24.8% |
* Well below Warrington'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 5 building fires Warrington departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 83 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 | Undetermined | 39 | 47.0% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 10 | 12.0% | |
| 3 | Cooking area, kitchen | 8 | 9.6% | |
| 4 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 7 | 8.4% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 7 | 8.4% | |
| 6 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 5 | 6.0% | |
| 7 | Wildland, woods | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 8 | Other | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 9 | Assembly area - less than 100 persons | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 10 | Laboratory | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 2 | 2.4% |
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 Warrington mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 63 | 75.9% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 4 | 4.8% | |
| 3 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 4 | Hot ember or ash | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 5 | Fireworks | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 6 | Cigarette | 2 | 2.4% | |
| 7 | Spark, ember or flame from operating equipment | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 8 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 9 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 10 | Match | 1 | 1.2% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 4 | 4.8% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Warrington departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1 | Outside rubbish fire, other | Significant | Investigated |
| 2 | $1 | Passenger vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $1 | Cooking fire, confined to container | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $1 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Warrington sits below the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 50,069 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11,638 | 50.0 mi | |
| 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3,577 | 47.9 mi | |
| 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,900 | 39.9 mi | |
| 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,730 | 48.8 mi | |
| 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,600 | 38.1 mi | |
| 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,450 | 43.8 mi | |
| 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,300 | 39.4 mi | |
| 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2,240 | 37.0 mi | |
| 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 2,107 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,950 | 41.2 mi | |
| 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,900 | 45.5 mi | |
| 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | 1,600 | 46.8 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 Warrington. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Warrington.
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.