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2025 Annual Fire Report

Fires in Woodville, California

In 2025, fire departments serving Woodville responded to 10 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $300K building blaze. Here's the full picture.

Updated Sep 27, 2026 Grade B+ Peak yr 2024 Tulare County 1,830 residents 0 reporting departments 86 5-yr

Incomplete 2025 data. Woodville's departments reported 10 incidents to NFIRS for 2025, against about 17 in a typical year, so 2025 figures on this page undercount. The 2021–2025 totals are the better guide.

Total incidents
10
Not comparable with 2024 (incomplete reporting)
Building fires
1
Residential 0% Other 100%
Property loss
$336K
$336K structure · $0 contents
Deaths & injuries
0 / 0
0 civilian deaths · 0 civ injuries · 0 firefighter injuries
01 The mix

What kinds of fires happen here?

Passenger vehicle fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 90% of all calls.

10
Total Incidents
Passenger vehicle fire 2 20.0%
Outside rubbish, trash or waste fire 2 20.0%
Power line down 2 20.0%
Unauthorized burning 2 20.0%
Building fires 1 10.0%
All other categories 1 10.0%
02 Seasonality

When do fires happen?

Jul peaks. Jan dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.

Jan 0
Feb 1
Mar 2
Apr 0
May 1
Jun 0
Jul 4
Aug 1
Sep 0
Oct 0
Nov 0
Dec 1
Fewer
More
2b Five-year trend

Year over year in Woodville

86 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2024. $519K cumulative property loss.

YearIncidentsYoY 
2021 22 —
2022 12 -45.5%
2023 18 +50.0%
2024 24 +33.3%
2025* 10 —

* Well below Woodville'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.

03 Cause of ignition

What sparks building fires?

For the 1 building fires Woodville departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.

Unintentional
0%
0
Cause undetermined
67%
4
Intentional / arson
17%
1
Equipment / heat source failure
17%
1
Under investigation
0%
0
Act of nature (lightning)
-1%
0
3b Where fires start

Where do fires start in Woodville?

NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 60 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 originCountShare 
1 Undetermined 20 33.3%
2 Open area - outside; included are farmland, field 16 26.7%
3 Outside area, other 7 11.7%
4 Vehicle area, other 4 6.7%
5 Function area, other 2 3.3%
6 Cooking area, kitchen 2 3.3%
7 Other 1 1.7%
8 Laundry area, wash house (laundry) 1 1.7%
9 Closet 1 1.7%
10 Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. 1 1.7%
11 All other areas 5 8.3%
3c What ignited it

What actually ignited the fire?

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 Woodville mix.

#Heat sourceCountShare 
1 Undetermined 44 73.3%
2 Arcing 6 10.0%
3 Heat from other open flame or smoking materials 2 3.3%
4 Cigarette lighter 2 3.3%
5 Heat from powered equipment, other 1 1.7%
6 Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment 1 1.7%
7 Hot ember or ash 1 1.7%
8 Explosive, fireworks, other 1 1.7%
9 Fireworks 1 1.7%
10 Candle 1 1.7%
04 The biggest fires

4 fires · $336K in losses

Largest single-incident property losses reported by Woodville departments in 2025. These 4 fires alone account for 100% of the city's annual total.

# Property loss Type Severity Status
1 $300,000 Building fires Major Investigated
2 $25,000 Passenger vehicle fire Significant Investigated
3 $10,000 Passenger vehicle fire Significant Investigated
4 $500 Fire in mobile home used as fixed residence Significant Investigated
05 How Woodville compares

Woodville vs California vs the nation

Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Woodville sits below the national average for incidents per resident.

5.46
Incidents per 1,000 residents
Woodville
5.46
CA avg
5.32
US avg
7.48
0.55
Building fires per 1,000 residents
Woodville
0.55
CA avg
0.32
US avg
0.85
0
Civilian fire deaths per million
Woodville
0
CA avg
2.9
US avg
5.9
5c Wildfires nearby

Wildfires within 50 mi of Woodville

Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 415,621 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.

50 mi radius
YearCauseAcresDistance 
2002 Recreation and ceremony 150,696 44.2 mi
1997 Missing data/not specified/undetermined 43,700 5.0 mi
2017 Arson/incendiarism 36,556 27.5 mi
2016 Missing data/not specified/undetermined 29,192 41.7 mi
2011 Natural 20,500 40.3 mi
2017 Natural 19,215 41.8 mi
2010 Missing data/not specified/undetermined 16,442 45.9 mi
2017 Natural 16,031 44.7 mi
2020 Natural 8,419 47.6 mi
2003 Natural 7,963 47.4 mi
1995 Power generation/transmission/distribution 7,495 45.7 mi
2015 Natural 6,960 38.4 mi
5d Top ZIPs

Where in Woodville do fires concentrate?

Top 2 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.

#ZIP5-yr incidents 
1 93257 85
2 94930 1
5e Peer cities

Cities similar to Woodville

Six California cities with population within ±25% of Woodville. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.

07 Stay prepared

Before the next Red Flag day.

A 30-minute weekend can cut your home's exposure substantially. These four checklists are a good starting point.

About this data

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.