All Reported Fireworks Fires Reported to the Office of the State Fire Marshal
Fireworks Reported as the Heat Source of the Ignition
Report Date:7/3/2018

CA July 4th Fireworks Fires
Year
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Grand Total

Annual Count

4th of July Count

Percent of Total

555
510
548
643
869

193
190
190
244
339
1156

35%
37%
35%
38%
39%
37%

3125

Incidents when mutual or automatic aid was given to a neighboring fire department are not included in counts. Structure Fires with Fireworks reported as the Heat
Source of the Ignition = All reported incidents that include the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Incident Type code 111; Building Fire and NFIRS Heat
Source Code 50; Explosives, Fireworks, other and 54; Fireworks, includes sparklers, paper caps, party poppers, and firecrackers. Wildland Fires with Fireworks
reported as the Heat Source of the Ignition = All reported incidents that include the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) Incident Type codes 140-143;
Natural Vegetation Fires, 170-173; Cultivated Vegetation Crop Fires, and 561; Unauthorized Burning and and NFIRS Heat Source Code 50; Explosives, Fireworks,
other and 54; Fireworks, includes sparklers, paper caps, party poppers, and firecrackers. The statistics come from the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s (OSFM)
California All Incident Reporting System (CAIRS) data warehouse. Property and contents loss figures, if included herein, are estimates only. These emergency
incident statistics, including injury and death counts, are based only upon information submitted to the OSFM by participating California fire departments. Please
note that apparent variations in incident counts and associated losses shown in this report may be solely due to fluctuations in the amount of data submitted to the
OSFM. And while the incoming data is validated according to logical data rules, individual data elements are not always verified for accuracy.