Record · Offense

Arson in the United States

Law enforcement agencies reported 32,752 arson offenses, a rate of 9.9 per 100,000 residents of the population they covered, in 2025, according to the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer.

2025

32,752
Offenses reported: 9.9
Rate per 100,000: 10,408
Offenses cleared: 31.8%
Share cleared: 332,920,308
Population covered: 96.4%
Reporting coverage

The rate denominator is the population the reporting agencies served, not the population of the United States, so the rate here is the rate the FBI computes. A clearance is an offense an agency closed by arrest or by exceptional means. The FBI clears an offense by arrest once a person has been arrested, charged, and turned over to a court for prosecution, which is where the record ends; on our reading that makes the share cleared a measure of cases closed, not of cases that ended in a conviction. The FBI also notes that a clearance recorded in one year may close an offense reported in an earlier one.

1985 to 2025

The arson rate is 79.6% below its 1986 peak

Arson offenses per 100,000 residents, using the FBI’s own population denominator for the agencies that reported. Only years reported in full are drawn; a gap is a year with no published rate, not a year of none.

The FBI has also published 9 months of 2026. That year is not drawn and is not compared with a full year here, because a part-year total is smaller for the reason that it is shorter.

Source: The FBI’s Crime Data Explorer

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The figures

The arson rate is 79.6% below its 1986 peak. Arson offenses per 100,000 residents, using the FBI’s own population denominator for the agencies that reported. Only years reported in full are drawn; a gap is a year with no published rate, not a year of none.
Year	Arson rate	Offenses reported
1985	45.3	103,698
1986	48.4	111,163
1987	44.6	102,914
1988	45.9	100,212
1989	43.5	102,187
1990	44.2	104,088
1991	44.6	103,299
1992	43.8	103,979
1993	40.3	96,071
1994	43.0	103,178
1995	41.4	96,536
1996	39.7	91,697
1997	36.9	87,260
1998	33.6	80,150
1999	32.2	78,495
2000	27.5	69,466
2001	30.6	79,040
2002	29.0	77,148
2003	27.3	72,809
2004	25.3	69,300
2005	24.8	68,508
2006	25.4	72,969
2007	23.4	68,091
2008	22.4	65,789
2009	20.1	59,860
2010	18.5	55,986
2011	17.9	54,546
2012	18.0	55,336
2013	15.3	47,204
2014	14.9	46,195
2015	14.0	43,993
2016	14.5	45,729
2017	13.6	42,993
2018	12.2	39,361
2019	11.4	36,205
2020	14.4	45,985
2021	11.7	30,249
2022	12.5	40,057
2023	11.7	37,894
2024	11.0	36,601
2025	9.9	32,752

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By state · 2025

Every jurisdiction the FBI published a arson rate for in 2025, ranked from the highest rate. The coverage column is the share of each state’s population living in a reporting agency’s jurisdiction; below 90%, both the count and the rate describe part of the state.

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Jurisdictions ranked by reported arson rate, 2025
Rank	State	Rate per 100,000	Offenses	Cleared	Coverage
1	Oregon	27.1	1,134	37.7%	98.0%
2	Alaska	21.1	155	27.7%	99.7%
3	Hawaii	20.9	299	16.7%	100.0%
4	Colorado	20.5	1,219	34.7%	99.1%
5	California	18.7	7,350	35.0%	100.0%
6	Kansas	14.8	418	26.6%	94.8%
7	New Mexico	14.1	280	22.9%	93.9%
8	Oklahoma	14.0	577	23.4%	99.9%
9	Nevada	13.3	436	43.3%	99.6%
10	Missouri	12.6	780	21.9%	98.7%
11	Alabama	12.2	628	19.4%	99.3%
12	Montana	12.0	137	39.4%	100.0%
13	Washington	11.8	923	28.6%	97.5%
14	North Carolina	11.6	1,259	28.8%	96.6%
15	Maine	11.5	160	36.9%	98.6%
16	Michigan	11.2	1,097	31.3%	96.9%
17	Arkansas	11.0	337	22.3%	98.4%
18	Nebraska	11.0	219	45.2%	99.4%
19	Mississippi	10.5	252	23.4%	81.5%
20	Tennessee	10.3	750	25.7%	99.6%
21	Pennsylvania	9.9	1,277	33.3%	99.2%
22	Illinois	9.6	1,158	22.6%	94.7%
23	South Carolina	9.3	503	39.8%	96.4%
24	Minnesota	8.7	505	34.7%	99.8%
25	Arizona	8.6	642	33.6%	97.8%
26	Indiana	8.5	521	20.0%	87.6%
27	Delaware	8.5	90	51.1%	100.0%
28	West Virginia	8.4	129	27.9%	87.3%
29	Utah	8.4	292	41.4%	98.9%
30	Texas	8.0	2,513	23.9%	99.1%
31	Rhode Island	7.8	86	45.3%	98.8%
32	Ohio	7.3	807	25.7%	93.2%
33	Kentucky	7.3	335	37.6%	100.0%
34	North Dakota	7.2	57	49.1%	98.8%
35	South Dakota	7.2	60	46.7%	89.7%
36	Vermont	6.9	44	65.9%	99.8%
37	Iowa	6.7	209	37.3%	97.1%
38	New York	6.4	1,269	36.3%	98.8%
39	Wyoming	6.1	33	30.3%	92.5%
40	Maryland	6.1	382	39.0%	100.0%
41	New Hampshire	6.1	86	41.9%	99.9%
42	Georgia	6.1	617	25.3%	90.5%
43	Idaho	5.7	114	43.9%	98.6%
44	Virginia	5.7	502	45.8%	100.0%
45	Louisiana	5.6	201	43.3%	78.0%
46	Wisconsin	5.3	309	35.6%	97.1%
47	Connecticut	4.7	172	43.0%	100.0%
48	Massachusetts	4.5	320	32.5%	99.8%
49	New Jersey	3.2	295	43.1%	97.6%
50	Florida	3.1	617	42.9%	84.4%
51	District of Columbia	0.4	3	66.7%	100.0%

How to read this

Reporting to the FBI is voluntary. Coverage varies by agency and by year, so a change in a total can be a change in which agencies reported rather than a change in offenses.
Rates on this page divide by the population the reporting agencies served, which is the FBI’s own population figure for the jurisdiction multiplied by the share of it those agencies covered. Dividing by the whole population instead would understate the rate by exactly the share that did not report.
An annual rate is the annual count over that denominator. It is never the average of the FBI’s monthly rates, because averaging rates across months of differing coverage produces a number that belongs to no population.

Sources

FBI Crime Data Explorer API — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 19, 2026

Compiled automatically from FBI Crime Data Explorer API by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved September 19, 2026