ZIP 08502 recorded 42 fire and hazmat incidents in 2025, 220 across 2021–2025. Primary county: Somerset County, NJ.
220 incidents from 2021 through 2025 inside this ZIP.
| Year | Incidents | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 19 | |
| 2022 | 49 | |
| 2023 | 28 | |
| 2024 | 82 | |
| 2025 | 42 |
Mar peaks. Dec dips. Aggregated across all 5 years inside this ZIP.
Top 5 NFIRS incident types for ZIP 08502 across 2021–2025.
| # | Incident type | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gas leak (natural gas or LPG) | 56 | 25.5% | |
| 2 | Cooking fire, confined to container | 49 | 22.3% | |
| 3 | Brush, or brush and grass mixture fire | 16 | 7.3% | |
| 4 | Building fires | 14 | 6.4% | |
| 5 | Carbon monoxide incident | 10 | 4.5% |
For the 1 building fires reported here in 2025, here's how investigators classified ignition cause.
NFIRS Area of Origin for ZIP 08502 fires across 2021–2025.
| # | Area of origin | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 13 | 100.0% |
NFIRS HEAT_SOURC code — the physical thing that started the fire.
| # | Heat source | Count | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Undetermined | 12 | 92.3% | |
| 2 | Candle | 1 | 7.7% |
Some ZIPs span multiple cities. Ranked by 5-yr NFIRS incidents inside ZIP 08502.
| # | City | 5-yr incidents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belle Mead | 206 | |
| 2 | Hillsborough | 1 | |
| 3 | Montgomery | 1 |
The figures above are historical. For today's air quality, fire-weather warnings, and active fires, go to the official sources.
NFIRS reports each fire incident with a 5-digit address ZIP. We aggregate those rows directly to produce ZIP-level totals — 220 incidents in this ZIP across 2021–2025. Building-fire breakdowns (Area of Origin, Heat Source, ignition cause) only count fires investigators classified beyond the basic incident report. Because NFIRS reporting is voluntary, totals are a strong indicator rather than a complete census.