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In 2025, fire departments serving Yuba City responded to 588 fire and hazmat incidents — from cooking fires to gas leaks to a single $270K building blaze. Here's the full picture.
Outside rubbish, trash or waste fire lead by count. Building fires lead by dollars. Together the top five categories make up about 39% of all calls.
May peaks. Dec dips. Watch for the typical fall climb starting in October.
3,336 incidents 2021–2025. Peak year was 2022. $10.0M cumulative property loss. 2 civilian deaths.
| Year | Incidents | YoY | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 691 | — | |
| 2022 | 746 | +8.0% | |
| 2023 | 703 | -5.8% | |
| 2024 | 608 | -13.5% | |
| 2025 | 588 | -3.3% |
For the 36 building fires Yuba City departments responded to in 2025, here's how they were classified once investigators were finished.
NFIRS Area of Origin (AREA_ORIG) for the 693 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 | 192 | 27.7% | |
| 2 | Outside area, other | 77 | 11.1% | |
| 3 | Engine area, running gear, wheel area | 74 | 10.7% | |
| 4 | Open area - outside; included are farmland, field | 40 | 5.8% | |
| 5 | Other | 31 | 4.5% | |
| 6 | Vehicle area, other | 29 | 4.2% | |
| 7 | Operator/passenger area of transportation equip. | 21 | 3.0% | |
| 8 | Vehicle storage area; garage, carport | 19 | 2.7% | |
| 9 | Highway, parking lot, street: on or near | 19 | 2.7% | |
| 10 | Cooking area, kitchen | 18 | 2.6% | |
| 11 | All other areas | 173 | 25.0% |
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 Yuba City mix.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 485 | 70.0% | |
| 2 | Heat from powered equipment, other | 28 | 4.0% | |
| 3 | Arcing | 25 | 3.6% | |
| 4 | Heat source: other | 24 | 3.5% | |
| 5 | Hot or smoldering object, other | 17 | 2.5% | |
| 6 | Hot ember or ash | 15 | 2.2% | |
| 7 | Heat spread from another fire, other | 14 | 2.0% | |
| 8 | Heat from other open flame or smoking materials | 10 | 1.4% | |
| 9 | Flying brand, ember, spark | 10 | 1.4% | |
| 10 | Radiated, conducted heat from operating equipment | 9 | 1.3% | |
| 11 | All other sources | 56 | 8.1% |
Largest single-incident property losses reported by Yuba City departments in 2025. These 8 fires alone account for 64% of the city's annual total.
| # | Property loss | Type | Severity | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $270,000 | Building fires | Major | Investigated |
| 2 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 3 | $150,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 4 | $110,961 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 5 | $100,000 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 6 | $94,199 | Building fires | Significant | Investigated |
| 7 | $80,000 | Off-road vehicle or heavy equipment fire | Significant | Investigated |
| 8 | $75,000 | Water vehicle fire | Significant | Investigated |
Per-capita rates let us compare apples to apples. Yuba City sits above the national average for incidents per resident.
6 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 | 0 | |
| 20-29 | 1 | |
| 30-39 | 2 | |
| 40-49 | 0 | |
| 50-59 | 1 | |
| 60-69 | 0 | |
| 70-79 | 0 | |
| 80+ | 0 |
Top 25 wildfires (1992+) in the FPA-FOD ignitions database, scaled by acres. 592,801 acres burned in this 50-mile radius. Each dot is a fire — bigger dots burned more land.
| Year | Cause | Acres | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 153,336 | 48.1 mi | |
| 2018 | Other causes | 90,288 | 37.6 mi | |
| 2015 | Other causes | 69,363 | 48.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 40,000 | 39.8 mi | |
| 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39,138 | 37.3 mi | |
| 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 23,344 | 43.6 mi | |
| 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19,609 | 27.6 mi | |
| 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 17,944 | 40.1 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 13,652 | 48.6 mi | |
| 1999 | Other causes | 11,725 | 37.5 mi | |
| 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 11,089 | 48.4 mi | |
| 1999 | Natural | 10,857 | 41.7 mi |
Top 8 ZIP codes by NFIRS incident count across 2021–2025. Each ZIP has its own fire profile — dive in for neighborhood-level context.
Six California cities with population within ±25% of Yuba City. Useful comparison targets — same state, similar size, different fire profile.
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.