In 2025, fire departments serving Wellington responded to 15 fire and hazmat incidents . 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 73% of all calls.
May peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
59 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2025. $500K cumulative property loss.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | 14 | +16.7% | |
| 2023 | 11 | -21.4% | |
| 2024* | 7 | — | |
| 2025 | 15 | — |
* Well below Wellington'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 0 building fires Wellington departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 17 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 | 4 | 23.5% | |
| 2 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 3 | 17.6% | |
| 3 | Common room, den, family room, living room, lounge | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 4 | Vehicle area, other | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 5 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 2 | 11.8% | |
| 6 | Bedroom - < 5 persons; included are jail or prison | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 7 | Cooking area, kitchen | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 8 | Closet | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 9 | Ceiling & floor assembly, crawl space b/t stories | 1 | 5.9% |
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 Wellington mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 12 | 70.6% | |
| 2 | Heat source: other | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 3 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 4 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 5 | Match | 1 | 5.9% | |
| 6 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 1 | 5.9% |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Wellington sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 287,654 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 68,547 | 39.9 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 48,986 | 23.7 mi | |
| 2012 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 47,387 | 45.6 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 31,661 | 45.6 mi | |
| 2018 | Debris and open burning | 18,080 | 28.5 mi | |
| 2018 | Natural | 12,789 | 49.0 mi | |
| 2017 | Natural | 9,159 | 44.2 mi | |
| 2012 | Natural | 7,221 | 22.9 mi | |
| 2007 | Debris and open burning | 5,315 | 45.0 mi | |
| 2002 | Natural | 4,860 | 41.9 mi | |
| 2004 | Natural | 3,415 | 35.5 mi | |
| 2007 | Natural | 3,382 | 31.2 mi |
Top 2 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 Wellington. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
1 departments report to NFIRS for incidents in Wellington.
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.