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title: Wildfire — U.S. toll in 2025 (NOAA)
peril: Wildfire
year: 2025
source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database
sourceId: src:noaa:ncei:storm-events-database
---

# Wildfire — U.S. toll in 2025

In **2025**, NOAA recorded **61 direct deaths**, **39 injuries**, and **$788,932,110 property damage** (+ $193,415,000 crop) from Wildfire, across **28 states** (307 events). That is 9.7% of all recorded 2025 hazard deaths.

**How to read this:** one **volatile year** (a major event in another year changes it sharply) — NOT "the deadliest hazard in history." Deaths are NOAA **"direct" deaths only**; indirect deaths are excluded. Damage is NOAA's reported estimate, not insured loss. This is the recorded past toll, **not a forecast of your risk** — for that, see the per-state/county risk profiles and the National Weather Service.

## Where wildfire took the most lives in 2025

| State | Direct deaths | Property damage |
| --- | --- | --- |
| CALIFORNIA | 58 | $50,060,010 |
| OKLAHOMA | 2 | $60,363,100 |
| HAWAII | 1 | $1,000,000 |
| WASHINGTON | 0 | $543,468,000 |
| IDAHO | 0 | $49,215,000 |
| UTAH | 0 | $35,000,000 |
| MINNESOTA | 0 | $22,940,000 |
| MISSOURI | 0 | $15,107,000 |
| NEW MEXICO | 0 | $6,050,000 |
| TEXAS | 0 | $1,520,000 |

RECORDED NOAA Storm Events figures. Not history, not your risk, not a forecast. Your exposure: `/property/states/<state>` and `/property/counties/<fips>`. Source: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/

Structured data: `/property/hazards/wildfire.jsonld`